The best way to describe 2019 has been joy training. It's almost as if I decided to put joy training wheels back on the bicycle I was riding through life. If you remember training wheels and how they feel on the pavement, you know that they don't feel as smooth as wheels without training. Training wheels create sometimes a bumpy surface or it may even feel like you are tilted and trying to ride through life sideways. 

It's a weird feeling but sometimes I think we all need a little bit of joy training. Because with those training wheels on, we certainly go slower and we feel the surface beneath us-which is a wonderful reminder to stop and think and slow down. Joy training has been something my husband and myself have really been working on this year. We put the training wheels back on at least once per week to enjoy a date night out. It may seem silly and not quite effective-but it is incredibly effective. That joy training once per week has been a sunshine moment of pure joy in the midst of sometimes a very dense cloud of work and more work and hours of work. 

I aws never one for training wheels but it is a wonder what training wheels can do to effectively train one's mind and feet and heart. Don't look at it as a regression but just a way of retraining yourself to do something different. Training yourself for a greater purpose than yourself is all the more reason to put those wheels back on. Train for joy and climb mountains.