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Joy!

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People are always on the search for joy. Even Christians are trying to find how they can have that wonderful joy they've tasted from time to time all the time.  When people are looking for joy they tend to look for the things that bring it, but what if we look for the things that destroy it? One of joy's biggest enemies is a little hyphenated word known as Self-pity. Now before you start resisting and thinking I never feel sorry for myself! Just sit down and listen to someone who once thought the same thought. More Fun with Friends! This is how I've always known or seen Self-pity to act. It's only fun with friends. If a young child decides to feel sorry for themselves is usually looks like, pouting lip, slumping posture and a refusal to enter into playing. They put on their little victim show for you because they hope you'll feel sorry for them! Fat chance! In our house feeling-sorry-for-yourself is right up there on the offense list with lying an