Don't Lose Sight Of Joy

In the lyrics to her hauntingly beautiful and troublingly relatable hit, “What Was I Made For," singer/songwriter Billie Eilish laments, “I think I forgot how to be happy. Something I’m not. Something I can be. Something I wait for. Something I’m made for.”

I don’t know about you, but I’ve allowed myself to lose sight of JOY far too often in my life. It’s easy to do amidst the noise, when you’re preoccupied with adulting, when you are (or believe you’re) uber important, when you take yourself way too seriously - get mired in the “doing” rather than the living and the loving.

The thing is the more times you lose sight of JOY, the harder it gets to find it again. You forget where to look for it, what it feels like – how important it is. Some eventually stop looking, decide it’s just not worth the effort, that they “weren’t meant to be happy,” resign themselves to a life devoid of it. My dad did that.

Don’t be that person.

If you’re in a season where you’ve lost sight of JOY, take up the search. Try to remember where you found it the last time it went missing. Start there. And, if you’re still struggling to find it, consider looking where I most often do - in the heart of a little child, because JOY tends to go where it knows it's always welcomed.

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