Joy Is A Wildfire

the art of a personal spring

I used to think joy was just a feeling,

and then I went on a walk.

It was early morning, which I’ve been doing these days because it’s been so hot. I call this kind of weather a kiss from summer, like a little pre-kiss, an excited text before a date from our favorite time of year.

Anyway, I was walking and listening to this amazing song. I’ve always been like this with music. I see pictures and colors when I hear it. It’s the same way I think about art. I see it in my mind before it ever becomes real through my hands. That’s how I always know what I’m making.

So the song is playing, and I’m seeing all these things, and then I get this overwhelming joy that was obviously the Holy Spirit. It kept getting stronger, like through my belly and through my heart. I’m pretty sure anyone who walked past me could feel that something was going on.

Then in my mind, I saw a wildfire. That’s the simplest way to say it. But really, I saw three beings with two wings each. Their wings weren’t like bird wings. They were flames. Intense flames. And they just kept growing.

Joy is a wildfire. It burns through everything in its path. And it spreads.

I don’t know, but from that point on, literally this morning lol, I started taking my joy very seriously. And I say that as a girl who already thought she took her joy seriously. But I used to think it belonged to me. Now I don’t think that.

Fire doesn’t belong to you. You can only work with the elements and make the kind of space where it can live. But you can’t control it once it gets big.

Light your joy and let it burn. Honestly, don’t stop.

Whatever you turn your heart toward you move towards, you’ll always go in the direction of your thinking, decide to not dwell on anything outside of yourself because it is subject to change.

Focus on your heart and everything will flow in the direction of your intention. smooth right? you caught me at the right time.

Okay talk soon, I have final edits of the last draft of my book due on Monday morning so I’m locked in like Hailey was when she wanted Justin know what I’m sayin’ hallelujah. <3

Have the BEST WEEKEND I leave you with this

and a lil bit of this