Drops of Joy – A Devotional Journey of Healing — Update 17
Are you fearful, distrusting, broken from events in your life? Have you dealt with abuse, rejection, abandonment or other destructive aspects of getting through your days? Are you ready for God to mold the ashes of your past, even if they are still smoldering, into something beautiful for His glory? Join me on my journey of healing, because He has done that very thing for me.
From the book:
“Helping others understand
how God sees them became my foremost purpose in the recovery groups. I wanted everyone who went through the steps to come out knowing how to apply those adjectives to their own name, just as God does. I wanted them to be able to internalize it, know it, and live it…steadfast grace.
I want that for you, too. With all the compassion and help I can muster, I can’t fix my own issues, let alone tell someone else what to do. I can simply point out how God has worked to help me overcome the mire and clean up the muck life throws at me. I lean on a couple of promises. Isaiah 61:1(NKJV) speaks in the voice of the coming Savior, “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;” He continues in verse 3 with “to grant to those who mourn in Zion—to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit; that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he may be glorified.” God molds beauty out of ashes, praise from distrust and fear, and strength out of brokenness to His glory.” (Taylor, Joy S., Drops of Joy – A Devotional Journey of Healing, 2026, Lily of the Valley Publishing Services, Indiana, p. 39-40)
Come and join me on this journey of God’s healing. May a piece of my past lead you to a better future through God’s intervention. This is a compilation of prose, poetry and prayer to bring you closer to the Lord. Read. Pray. Heal.
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Joy S Taylor is a follower of Christ, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. Her workdays were spent using the Master of Science in Accounting degree that God graciously allowed at the age of, well, greater than 40. She led a divorce recovery support group sponsored by her church for seven years, and spent more than a decade in leadership roles for Celebrate Recovery and Care Net, using what God had done in her life to point others to the healing only Jesus gives. Now retired, she concentrates on writing for Jesus from her beloved hickory grove in Indiana, yet devotes some of her time to volunteering.