Explaining the subtitle for the blog:

I spent some time several years ago looking for more joy – the kind that I FELT as a kid when Christmas was coming or when I landed on a really good team in a college pickup basketball game or receiving a letter from my fiancé.  All those events were fleeting.  Where is some longer-lasting JOY?

Maybe I found it in a variety of places. Telling jokes and finding cool number patterns is fun and funny.    Our family has wonderful times laughing and remembering the wacky events of our lives; the comical side of most events tends to come out in the retelling. HUMOR is a good start.

I heard from several sources that preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ to yourself every day is a good way to revive the joy that every Christian should feel.  Writing, meditating on, and telling brief summaries of the gospel does indeed remind one of deeper truths; finding lists in the Bible appeals to my structure and systems side; contemplating what God has done and can do revives childlike wonder.  DELIGHT is a good way to react.

The hope is that the joyful progression from humor to delight, as described in personal experiences, Bible readings, and group prayer, will continue in bringing GLORY to the awesome, fearful, and magnificent One True God of the universe.