Welcome to enjoying everyday life with New York Times best-selling author Joy Smyr.

On today's program Joyce will be teaching from her series Joy and Enjoyment.

There is a way to enjoy everything we do, even while driving in traffic

or cleaning up the house. Because if we have Jesus, we have joy. Now here's

Joyce with today's teaching. I'm doing a series on joy and enjoyment, putting an emphasis on enjoying life, not just living life, not just making it through, but actually enjoying your life.

Not just vacations, not just when you go shopping to get a new outfit, not just when you go shopping to get a new outfit not just when you got a holiday and

don't have to go to work but enjoying ordinary everyday,

every day, sometimes same old,

could be boring life if we let it be.

We all do a lot of the same things over and over and over and over. But I

shared last night that in every situation, no matter how much you dread it or don't want to do it or think you don't like

it, one of the great secrets to enjoying anything is to find something to be thankful for in that situation or in that

thing. For example, I use this last night. A lot of people like, you know, I hate to do my laundry. I don't like laundry day.

You got to do the laundry. Well, you could change your attitude by saying,

I thank God that I've got clothes.

Come on.

See, this, we lose. We lose an attitude of gratitude through having so much abundance that we no longer appreciate, really truly appreciate the things that we have.

I mean we should be so appreciative of being able to walk into a place like this

and spend the whole entire day

worshiping Jesus hearing the word of God

without fear of being arrested because we did it and yet we

haven't seen the other side of the way a lot of other people live and so we can tend to take

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