Thanks for Praying // Fullness of Joy

Some of you may have been aware of the fact that my father recently (Thursday afternoon) had what we thought was a stroke and was rushed to hospital in an ambulance. The doctors say now that they don't think it was a stroke after all but they still want him to have an MRI scan. So that will be happening sometime in the next few days. He is home now, having come home from the hospital on Saturday just after lunch. He feels perfectly fine and looks perfectly fine now, so we are praising the Lord for that!

I know that a lot of you were praying for him over the last few days. A massive hug and thank you to you! We really appreciate your prayers. :)

Grandma and Grandad are here at the moment. They came down to help with Jana but they have been such a help with Daddy in hospital as well! Grandad and Mum are the drivers now because Dad's not allowed to drive until at least after his MRI.

*completely changes topic*

I was wondering what people's favourite Bible verses are. I thought I would share mine (and the reason it's my favourite) and then we can have a bit of a conversation in the comments about our favourite Bible verses. I know there are so many lovely ones to choose from, but do you have one that you kind of keep referring back to and love to read just because?

Here's mine (just to start us off). It's Psalm 16:11.

"You will show me the path that leads to life, in your presence is fullness of joy."

I've always thought that it's difficult to be completely filled with joy until we get to Heaven. I know that in Heaven is complete and whole joy (there will be no tears or sadness there etc) but can we ever have complete joy on earth? We can be happy and can rejoice in the Lord and be joyful, but I don't think we can actually be completely happy and completely joy-filled until we come into the Lord's presence. Do you see the difference between joy-filled and joyful?

So yeah, basically I love it so much because my middle name is Joy. It seems to me that the verse is saying (to me personally, anyway) that in His presence is Fullness of Joy. Where I am made complete. Because my name is Joy, do you see? So on earth I can never be complete because we can't have fullness of joy, but in Heaven we can. :) I'm not sure if that makes sense or not to you, but it makes sense to me when I am writing this!!

So, what is your favourite verse/passage of Scripture?