Comments on: Recipe for Joy http://journal.thisenddown.com/2008/04/18/recipe-for-joy/ Writings and musings of Matt Stauffer. Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:57:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Sara http://journal.thisenddown.com/2008/04/18/recipe-for-joy/comment-page-1/#comment-10912 Sara Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:37:43 +0000 http://journal.thisenddown.com/2008/04/18/recipe-for-joy/#comment-10912 my friend kat costello heard about it through IV (i think marilyn de guehery), and suggested we ask them about designing a shirt for the orphanage. so she met with a couple of designers, told them the story, and they were all for it. you should buy one :) they're comfy as heck. my friend kat costello heard about it through IV (i think marilyn de guehery), and suggested we ask them about designing a shirt for the orphanage. so she met with a couple of designers, told them the story, and they were all for it.
you should buy one :) they’re comfy as heck.

]]> By: Mom http://journal.thisenddown.com/2008/04/18/recipe-for-joy/comment-page-1/#comment-10909 Mom Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:57:07 +0000 http://journal.thisenddown.com/2008/04/18/recipe-for-joy/#comment-10909 Good post! I like praying for other people. Then I'm not focusing on myself, and I'm growing in love for them, and I get to be really excited when I see God work in their lives. That works for me to get my eyes off myself. People are so darn interesting. Good post!

I like praying for other people. Then I’m not focusing on myself, and I’m growing in love for them, and I get to be really excited when I see God work in their lives. That works for me to get my eyes off myself.

People are so darn interesting.

]]> By: Jane Ester http://journal.thisenddown.com/2008/04/18/recipe-for-joy/comment-page-1/#comment-10900 Jane Ester Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:53:15 +0000 http://journal.thisenddown.com/2008/04/18/recipe-for-joy/#comment-10900 Stauffer. I read this earlier this morning....and it sorta pissed me off, to be completely honest. Thinking like: "that's ridiculious. it's not that simple for everyone to just get out of their little "funks." There's no such thing as some simple "recipe" for joy..." [etc.] Probably thinking such things because I, myself have been in one of these spiritual funks for a bit now. Anyways, I think your post had something to do with it....I just sorta realized that, yeah, God does not want me to be in such a funk. That's simple, but true. And He wants me to be happy. There's no reason I should not be happy, yet I without reason, I constantly deny myself this happiness...like I don't deserve to be happy? It's all just this enjoyment of feeling sorry for myself. An excuse to pity myself, for my world to be nothing more than that...MY world, to revolve completely around me. Sick. Maybe a bike ride isn't going to fix my problems, but that doesn't mean there's not some other way God wants me to go to find happiness. And I'll agree with your second "recipe"...just shifting my perspective and narrow mind from myself to other people. Loving people matters a lot. And a lot of times when I get really depressed and stuck up in self pity, I usually am praying and seeking God, but it's still all very self-centered. When God is silent, and not to be found in a prayer closet, then that probably means we should be looking for him elsewhere...and that place is generally in other people. Anyways, thank you for posting this. It helped. And was really bad off, so the help was a big deal. Also, it was good to see you tonight at AFAC. Stauffer. I read this earlier this morning….and it sorta pissed me off, to be completely honest. Thinking like: “that’s ridiculious. it’s not that simple for everyone to just get out of their little “funks.” There’s no such thing as some simple “recipe” for joy…” [etc.] Probably thinking such things because I, myself have been in one of these spiritual funks for a bit now.
Anyways, I think your post had something to do with it….I just sorta realized that, yeah, God does not want me to be in such a funk. That’s simple, but true. And He wants me to be happy. There’s no reason I should not be happy, yet I without reason, I constantly deny myself this happiness…like I don’t deserve to be happy? It’s all just this enjoyment of feeling sorry for myself. An excuse to pity myself, for my world to be nothing more than that…MY world, to revolve completely around me. Sick.
Maybe a bike ride isn’t going to fix my problems, but that doesn’t mean there’s not some other way God wants me to go to find happiness. And I’ll agree with your second “recipe”…just shifting my perspective and narrow mind from myself to other people. Loving people matters a lot.
And a lot of times when I get really depressed and stuck up in self pity, I usually am praying and seeking God, but it’s still all very self-centered. When God is silent, and not to be found in a prayer closet, then that probably means we should be looking for him elsewhere…and that place is generally in other people.
Anyways, thank you for posting this. It helped. And was really bad off, so the help was a big deal.
Also, it was good to see you tonight at AFAC.

]]> By: joyce http://journal.thisenddown.com/2008/04/18/recipe-for-joy/comment-page-1/#comment-10899 joyce Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:58:23 +0000 http://journal.thisenddown.com/2008/04/18/recipe-for-joy/#comment-10899 good entry - thanks :) good entry – thanks :)

]]> By: drew http://journal.thisenddown.com/2008/04/18/recipe-for-joy/comment-page-1/#comment-10898 drew Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:28:34 +0000 http://journal.thisenddown.com/2008/04/18/recipe-for-joy/#comment-10898 i so love you. i so love you.

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