Stop apologizing for being your big, beautiful & bubbly self! Stop it dear! Seek to only please the one who paid it all for you, Jesus.

Here’s the thing, no one can ever judge your joy or your praise. Most don’t know what it cost you to smile the way you do. Most don’t know what you had to walk through for your breakthrough. Most don’t know what storms you had to dance in. Most don’t know why you praise God the way you do. Most don’t know all that He’s brought you through and most don’t understand how the joy of the Lord has been your strength. Most don’t know your full story the way they think they do, and simply put, most don’t even really know you.

Your joy is beautiful; a beautiful fruit of the spirit that comes with a cost! Never tone it down for anyone! God never called us to dim His light, but He does call us to be sensitive to His Holy Spirit. Be sensitive and obedient. I think about Jesus on the way to the cross; I’m sure He was not smiling or jumping with excitement to go, yet His word says “For the joy set before Him, He endured the cross”. It is the Joy before us that gives us the strength to endure the challenges of this life. I have witness in one of my toughest season of low how God’s joy radiated even in my sorrow, grief, brokenness, and unbearable tears. I don’t know how God did it, but He is a faithful God and even uses our low, to lift His name high. It’s powerful! What didn’t feel like a season of joy, was indeed one, it just “looks” different.

Joy is not always an outward expression, most times it’s an inward grace! God is faithful and His joy is truly our strength! His joy is a grace to be embraced!

You are not “over the top”. Whoever spoke that over you had no idea that they were projecting and speaking a lie over you. You don’t have to receive that or come into agreement with that. You are exactly where God wants you.

Dear bubbly beloved,

RAISE A HALLELUJAH! Know that God knows and understand you! He made you just the way you are because you display a part of Him that some withhold. Don’t hold back. Give His joy away! It’s a gift! A beautiful one at that! Shine His light bright. Don’t dim it or downplay it. You are beautiful dear. God loves you and His Joy in you loves shinning through! Be free!

“Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it”. -Proverbs 4:23💛

-your fellow bubbly beloved, Amy

Group hug!