Daily Journey: Playdates With God~ Happiness is..../March Joy Dare

Day 25~ Happiness is getting help today at work that made my load so much lighter and easier. A great big thank you to Shelly for helping me in short stay! What a blessing she was. Happiness is having co-workers that go the extra mile! Happiness is getting off a half hour early. Love it! Happiness is getting some of my hair products for the salons. this week. Happiness is getting some bills wrote out. Happiness is a nice warm sweater to keep the chill off my arms. Happiness is finding out we no longer have anything in hock! YEA! Happiness is yet another day the Lord has blessed me with.

What about you.... what made you happy today?

Day 26~ Happiness is falling asleep early and sleeping late. Happiness is my late start to the day and still getting lots done. Happiness is knowing all the money spent today is nothing compared to what my Father has in store for me. Happiness is finding my gray slack today. Happiness is finding bargains. everywhere I went. Happiness is making a meal hubby actually really enjoyed tonight. Happiness is a full week of many blessings yet to be discovered. Happiness is receiving a phone call from my daughter Nick Racheal Perry! Made me so extremely happy! Happiness is rejoicing in each moment of each day!

Day 27~ Happiness is having a little later shift at the hospital. Happiness is having one of the patients ask me if I want to have a race with him today. Him and his walker and me and my cleaning cart. I think he would win! Made him smile. Happiness is being told I did a great job and that I'm a very hard worker. Happiness is a day that goes by quickly at work. Happiness is knowing you are doing your best. Happiness is working with a great nursing staff and other co-workers as well. Happiness is knowing your best friend in the world is always there for you and will listen. Happiness is getting the laundry done. Happiness is the that wonderful hot shower after a long day of work. Happiness is resting on the couch with foot propped up.

Day 28~ Happiness is making it through yet another work day. Happiness is paying less for rent at the salon then I was told! Thank you Jesus for your divine favor. Happiness is the blessing of working for Shari Whitlock and working with Jan Flynn. I will miss your ladies Shari and miss working with you Jan. It truly has been a fun! But....truly am happy with my decision. Happiness is hearing from my beautiful daughter Amber Webber! Happiness is seeing how God moves in our favor daily. Happiness is letting go of the old to make room for the new. Happiness is watching the squirrels and birds in the yard. Happiness is God's grace and love for me.

Day 29~ Happiness is yet another full day of making ladies and gents look and feel great! Happiness is celebration of hubby's birthday! Happiness is Good Friday the day our Lord took and bore the sins of the world so we might have life and life more abundantly. Happiness is the beautiful sunshine and the rays coming through my windshield as I drove home from work today. Happiness is it is Friday and I don't have to work tomorrow (I pray!) Happiness is talking with my friend Rose in Sacramento. Happiness is the birds chirping and singing in the early evening as the search for their diner. Happiness is looking at the photos on Instagram my oldest daughter Heather posted of her vacation in Santa Cruz with the kiddo's. Wish I could have been there! FUN! Happiness is the joy of each smile I have collected today on my journey. Happiness is my sweater wrapped around me to keep me warm. Happiness is the love that is given me daily by so many. I love you all thank you! ♥ Happiness is answered prayers.

Day 30~ Happiness is sleeping way past ten in the morning. Happiness is pot of coffee waiting for me when I awake. Happiness is a nice hot shower. Happiness is getting the rest of my Easter dinner at the market. Happiness is talking on the phone to my friend Sally Mazza. Happiness is a phone call from mom and the laugh and giggles she gives me. I'm so thankful I still have my mother! Thank you Lord! Happiness is going to the Easter play at East Hill with my neighbor Pat Holzbach. Thank you! How powerful it was! Your nephew did awesome in his part! ♥ Happiness is coming home and hubby having dinner ready for me. Happiness is celebrating the Resurrection of our Lord and Savior! Happiness is seeing lives changed. Happiness is God's grace upon my life and those I love. Thank you Lord!

Day 31~ Happiness is Resurrection Sunday the day our Lord and Savior broke the curse of death so we might have everlasting life with Him! Happiness is Easter breakfast after Easter service. Happiness is the quietness of my home when the TV isn't on. Happiness is singing His praises in Worship to Him who first loved me. Happiness is a yummy ham dinner and all the trimmings. Happiness is the beautiful sunshine that is casting through the living room window. Happiness is all the beautiful Easter wishes.

25~ A gift sung, written, painted

Okay this isn't going to be easy today!

The sung gift would be Praises to my Lord! But I think more fitting for me today would be the sung praise of the help from my co-worker Shelly today! The song would be "Forever and ever Amen!" By Randy Travis

Written would be all the work that needed to be accomplished today at work. We have a sheet we follow for each floor plus all the rooms that need to be cleaned.

Painted would be the beautiful paintings through the hospital that are hung on the walls throughout the building.

What are you sung, written, painted gifts?

26~ 3 Gifts almost gone

I was thinking about this and I really thought I would have a tough time with it. In reality I don't think so. As there are so many gifts that we are blessed with yet are gone o quickly.

1) The month of March is almost gone along with it with much pray is Winter I pray springing right into Spring and the showers that will bring all the flowers.

2) The work I have been doing out at Clackmas for my wonderful friend Shari Whitlock is coming to a close. It is bitter sweet. I have come to enjoy and love all the ladies there so very much. I have enjoyed filling in for Shari and working with

Jan Flynn. But.....my time is done and time to move on. This is a very hard goodbye as there is so much more involved. So all my prayer partners please keep these ladies and the shop in your prayers thank you.

3) This Tuesday is almost gone. A day I was blessed with and will never have again. So as it closes I'm so grateful and thankful for all the many blessing this day has held and all the love that I have been blessed with this day. A day I pray is always giving honor to the One that blessed me yet with another day!

So I really had fun with this one. What are your gifts that are almost gone? Can you come up with different ones? Have fun with this.....

27~ 3 Gifts redeemed

Okay I'm not sure about this one today or I'm just tried and cannot think .......

1) An old friendship that brings me happiness that I thought was lost

2) Dirty laundry that is now clean and put away :)

3) Paper work that I thought was lost was found that I needed for my taxes

28~ 3 Gifts Entwined

Okay not sure here at all............

1) The relationships and those I share my life with

2) My relationship with my Lord and Savior

3) How my work and friendships are all entwined

29~ 3 Gifts of His promises

1) "Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life. John 5:24

2) If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9

3) And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. John 14:3

30~ 3 Gifts uncovered

1) The allegory dramatization of the "Bridge" tonight at East Hill Church of the resurrection life we have in our Lord and Savior who came to give us life

2) The hidden truths we can uncover and find in His love letters to us in His written word

3) The foundation we build over many years in a our relationship that can withstand the time of storms and still stand and weather more. Thankful for each and everyone of them.

What are your uncovered gifts?

31~ A Gift heard, Held, Hoped for

A gift heard would be the message of the Risen Savior and how much He loved us that He sent His only son to die on a cross for me and rose three days later that we might have eternal life with Him.

Held would be the Hope that I have in Him and His promises that I hold dearly to my heart.

Hoped for would be all those I love would know the eternal love of our Lord and Savior and what He did for us.

Did you have a wonderful time with family and loved ones on Easter Sunday? Did you cook or did you get to enjoy someones else's cooking?