|You can have JOY through the Ups and Downs of Life!|
The idea of the carousel should be credited to our good friends and co-workers, David and Linda Stubblefield. One day while they were driving, they came up with the idea of how a carousel or merry-go-round represented the lives of the Moffitts. I could not help but agree with them, and I wanted to give them a special acknowledgement for helping set the foundation of my books. You see, one of the most exciting, amazing, and colorful rides I remember as a child was the carousel or, as I also called it, the merry-go-round.
I remember how I was fascinated with the colored lights, festive music, and decorative horses. I never was drawn to the stationary horses; they just seemed dull and presented no challenge. After all, they never did anything - they just sat still. I was mesmerized by the horses that moved - the ones that went up and down. To me, they were the ones that represented life.
Life can be exciting, fun, and challenging; yet a person can get scared, apprehensive, want to remove himself, and even get physically sick. Still, we need to keep on keeping on until the end of the ride. Yes, life has its ups and downs, but most important is how a person looks at it.
"All the days of the afflicted are evil; but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast." (Proverbs 15:15)
I trust the stories in my books of true-to-life teachings might help those who read the pages to see how life does have its down times, but through humor we can turn around the down times. Yes, life should be like a merry-go-round with its ups and downs, its triumphs and tragedies, its joys and sorrows.
"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace." (Ecclesiastes 3:1-8)
JoJo Moffitt and family