One word I used to hardly acknowledged and understood was

‘Joy’.

If my life were represented by a tree, and all the characteristics of maturity -  love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness and self-control, each a fruit,

Joy would be a bud.

Along with Joy, are the words ‘enjoy’, ’ fun’ and ‘HAHAHAHA’s.

Learning how to enjoy is a very complex feat for people with extreme choleric-melancholic personality like mine.

When you like to live life fast, furious, lean and mean, you miss out on the fun of it almost all the time. This year, I’ve learned, one of the worst things you could commit against yourself, is to accomplish great things without knowing how to enjoy doing it and having it after that.

People have children, but don’t enjoy them after they’ve out of their cuteness.

People slog at work for more money to buy bigger houses and bigger rides to pay bigger mortgages and bigger credit card bills - altogether dread work and stress themselves bald.

Life is hell without enjoyment!

And to enjoy, we have to tweak our perspectives.

The past four weeks have been busy but I’ve been enjoying it. I wrote and read and read and wrote for work, leisure and ministry. I was not motivated by stress but passion and purpose. There have been long meetings and late nights but they were altogether enjoyable as I went through these with passion and purpose in mind.

This, is liberty!

I’m looking forward to another day of enjoyment.

For that to come quickly, I better rest my head now.