Expressing Joy

I found a quote this week from a lady named Shauna Niequist, the author of "Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life". In this book she says, "I want my everyday to make God belly laugh, glad that he gave life to someone who loves the gift." Ever since reading this I have wondered the last time I made God laugh. When was the last time I gave God a good reason to belly laugh, to be glad that he gave me life? All to often we take life, we take our Christianity so seriously that we forget to actually live, we forget to celebrate the gift of life that God gave us. We claim to be children of joy but we forget to tell our faces that it's okay to show it. So that is my goal this next week; to give God a good reason to laugh, even if its at me. I want to celebrate life and express the joy that only God can give to His children.