Woo Hoo! We were so blessed by the first study that we wanted to share it with you. 🩷♥️🩷 We are starting this Friday the 16th at 6:00pm (CST) both online and face-to-face combined. We would love to have you join. The handouts are linked each week in the "Seasons of Joy" classroom and the link to join us is in the calendar. So, grab week 1 , and join us, we can't wait to see you. Take care, and watch out for the weeds. Love. Shelley

The last six weeks have been amazing and today we finished out the "Seasons of Joy" Study. But, it does not end there. And, based on your wonderful feedback I will be making some changes to improve the study. Thank you all so much. Now, I have a challenge for you to consider, would you like to do the study again with a person or or people you want to invite? Let me know what you think. We will not start for a couple of weeks because I am creating a journal to go with the study, but let me know if that sounds interesting. Or, let me know what you would like to do, go back to another study or take on a new study that I have coming soon? Also, I have a couple of favors to ask, but I will be back to you with them when it is ready. You have all touched my heart so much, and I pray that you were blessed, challenged, and inspired by the Holy Spirit during this study, I know that I was. 🙌🙏♥️ Please hold tight to the Master Gardener and continue to stamp out those pesky weeds, the enemy is a liar! Yes, we are so loved and we are going to trust in the Lord and Count it ALL JOY. We have seeds He is planting in us and we are growing much fruit through Him. 🧡🧡🧡🙌🙌🙌 Here is a little video reminder that every season can have a blessing and every season even when it does not look like it, has JOY. Let's continue to be thankful in all circumstances. 🙌♥️🙏 https://www.instagram.com/reel/DSBntbYDsbe/?stkn=MXVnYmpjemRxOHppMw==

Hello All, tomorrow is our last SOJ call and we will go over week six rather fast and then debrief about the study. Please bring the positives, and the negatives and any suggestions that you might have to make it better and or clearer, and more helpful for others. This has been an amazing six weeks and I have seen such a shift in how we all are thinking about Joy, Seasons, and especially how aware we are now of the weeds planted from the enemy that we now just stamp on and pull them out right away. We will no longer allow our joy to be stolen. 🙏🙌♥️💪🏼 I can't wait to hear from you, and again it has been a great blessing to share this study with you. You all have brought me such joy seeing the Lord (Master Gardener) planting and growing seeds of joy in us all. See you tomorrow, I hope you can join. ♥️🌸

This day is all about fruit and grace. What if the growing of the Fruit of the Spirit was our major focus? It would all be about growing these elements in our lives and sharing them with others, showing them love and grace like we were given. Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance (patience), kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. This scripture keeps coming to my mind again and again to keep me focused on the fruit and not the world. John 10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came so that they would have life, and have it abundantly. The very thing that steals our joy is wanting to keep us from any of the fruit by destroying our connection to Him. But, if we are focused on Him and allowing Him to cultivate more fruit in us to share with others, the enemy has no power in our lives. My garden has been my illustration during this entire process and it continued yesterday. As the temps especially at night are getting a little cooler, my plants are bouncing back and producing more fruit again. I felt so good about it that I just left them alone all day. But, I went out early last evening to water them and half of them and most all the fruit was gone, just gone. In just a day of being away, the enemy was able to come in FAST and strip it away, destroying it for sure. It hit me hard that we need to not get too confident or removed from the Master Gardener even for one day because the enemy is waiting and watching for that moment to come in and steal, kill, and destroy anything and everything he can and especially take the fruit. Don't step away for a moment, the enemy is waiting and watching to pounce. He can destroy so much in even a single day when we are not looking. Protect that fruit from the enemy that would love to pick it clean off. Here is the before and the after. 🥹 But, we have a promise from the Master Gardener to have a fruitful and abundant life with Him filled with much growing and blooming fruit, especially Joy. 🙌🙌🙌🙏🙏🙏