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Lauri Cox McIntosh
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Jesus
was
a man of excitement, a man of giving, a man of living, a MAN OF
JOY. And the
joy He lived was so much more than just a sunburst smile; it was a joy that lived and
breathed in a fullness of passion founded in desperate love and celebrated in everything He said and did. It
was a joy whose ultimate expression was not a robust belly laugh, though belly-laugh He
did, but rather a trio of nails through the hands and feet; for as the book of Hebrews
puts it, "For the joy set before Him (He) endured the cross."
Joy.
Not as the world knows it, but as He defined it—living, breathing, walking,
dying—
