Joy...!!!

Dear friends,

I just read this wonderful passage in the newsletter of dear friends of ours - and want to make it our prayer for us and for you for 2012:

This year we come to you,

From a different direction.

We come with a skip in our step

And a smile on our faces.

Because we know:

“I bring good news of great JOY that will be for all people.

Today in the town on David a Saviour was born to you:

He is Christ the Lord.” Luke 2:10-11

May this joy overwhelm you the whole 2012.

This is a joy that does not depend on our circumstances, but on our Master, the One who is always in control, no matter what our circumstances.

This is a joy that can not be disturbed by a rainy, cloudy day, because He is the one that can quiet any storm.

This is a joy that can not come and go, because our King is always with us, and never leaves or forsakes us.

This is the joy our world longs for, but looks for in all the wrong places.

This is the joy that we can share in 2012.

This is the JOY that we pray for you.

Blessings and love, Familie Edele (on this picture celebrating the source of this joy on Christmas with my (Andrea´s) family!