Gateways to Joy

Tonight I watched Sara Frankl's memorial. Sara is the blogger who passed away this Saturday due to a debilitating form of arthritis. So many people talk about Facebook, blogging and Twitter in a negative way, always saying why they "don't" participate. I understand totally. Yet I always share, though we should indeed play it safe, this new means of communication...networking, is my mission field. It's the way God is allowing me to minister to people I wouldn't otherwise be able to talk to. I'm writing this to show you the love God's people bestowed on Sara, blogger and friend to many, and vice-verse. These are some of the tweets that other's used, mostly bloggers, to express love to her during her final days and hours. Choosing Joy Tweets. There is also a beautiful write up about her and the mark she made on many of us. Tonight I watched a live stream of her memorial and yesterday her family allowed a live stream of her funeral. ...

Sara is her name. Her blog bio reads: "I'm just a girl who used to write for a magazine to make a living, and now writes a blog to make a life..." Sara suffered with Ankylosins Spondylitis {AS} .  A disease that kept her physically home-bound, yet in our world daily.  A lot of us who blog about our faith and life knew her very well... her story and what He was doing with her life. Yeah... blogging reaches out and touches lives.  It allows us to go places we wouldn't otherwise go, and meet people we wouldn't otherwise meet .  This is just one of the reasons why I blog and I ask many of you to share your stories ... your quiet time "aha" moments, your ups and your downs.  In doing so we never know who we are helping. Yes, our stories have helped Sara, but Sara has helped us in many ways.  One in particular is the fact that she showed us what  choosing joy looks like, choosing joy in spite of our circumstances is what we are called to do. If...