Habakkuk<\/a> has become one of my favorite books in the Bible. In fact, I chose to speak on Habakkuk the one opportunity that I had to speak to the congregation at my church (covered the entire book in 35 minutes! Dottie would’ve been proud of me!)<\/p>\nHabakkuk 3:17-19 has kept me encouraged and JOYFUL in hard times.<\/p>\n
While explaining this to my husband of how I came up with Joyful as my user name, I am suddenly struck by how a lesson from one person, Dottie, can influence my life so much.<\/p>\n
Impacting the choice of my user name may not seem significant, but consider how often I type the word Joyful. Every time I sign in, every time I post comments on other blogs and forums, JOYFUL is typed on my keyboard many times a day and travels quite a bit.<\/p>\n
Every time I type in JOYFUL, I think of the words of encouragement in Habakkuk 3:17-19 and in a subconscious sort of way, I thank God for the incredible gift of salvation.<\/p>\n
I studied the Bible under Dottie’s teaching for about 6-7 years. I often tell people that she is one of the best teachers I know, and that includes my seminary professors that I’ve had. I wish I can get recordings of Dottie’s lectures.<\/p>\n
But here is that part that bothers me: after 6-7 years with Dottie, how come I can only remember a handful of lessons from her?? OMG, has she spent endless hours week after week all these years for me to just gain a user name??<\/p>\n
Oh, but that user name means so much to me! Thank you Dottie, I hope you don’t think it’s been a waste. It hasn’t been a waste to me. THANK YOU!<\/p>\n
And if I can impact one person in the same way, I would count myself incredibly useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Have you ever noticed my User Name on this blog? My husband commented that my user name, Joyful, is a really nice expression. Let me tell you how I came up with that name. While in Bible Study Fellowship in the study of the Minor Prophets, Dottie the teacher led a short devotional on Habakkuk […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}