Count it ALL Joy! 🌴🦋✨

I know it’s not Sunday, and we’re all just hitting the peak of a new week—but I had to get this word out because I’ve been sitting on it for days.

This email won’t be a typical newsletter… it may just become the blueprint.

Over the past few years, I’ve tried my hardest to separate God from business—mostly because I didn’t want to be judged by the expectations we, as humans, place on each other. And for those closest to me, you know I’ll say in a heartbeat, “I’ll never be a preacher or anything close to it.”

So let me be clear—I’m not coming to preach. I’m simply acknowledging the One who carries me in all seasons: Abba. Jehovah. Yahweh. God.

My teenage years and my 20s consisted of God carrying me through my self-inflicted mistakes and poor decisions. But my 30s? Whew. They’ve been hitting differently. I’m in the thick of life now.

I’ve gotten a better handle on making poor decisions and being hard-headed, but nothing—and no one—really prepares you for life trials and tribulations. Those moments where you can be doing everything “right,” and things still just… happen.

LIFE HAPPENS. And add being a parent on top of that?! Babyyyyyy—CUT THE SHOW 😂

However, a special person reminded me of what our good brother James tells us in James 1:2–4:

“Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance."👏🏽

Key Meanings:

✨ Count it all joy: Finding a deeper, faith-rooted joy in difficulties—not celebrating the pain itself, but trusting the purpose and outcome it produces.

✨ Testing of your faith: Life’s challenges act as a refining fire, strengthening and proving your faith.

✨ Produces perseverance: Enduring trials builds resilience, steadfastness, and the ability to keep going.

✨ Mature and complete: The end goal is spiritual wholeness—becoming grounded, strengthened, and secure in God.

With that being said… count it all joy. Joy isn’t contingent on whether life is going good or bad. Joy outlasts fleeting happiness. Joy is the ability to smile even when the weight of the world sits heavy on your shoulders.

I’m unsure of where you are in life right now—or the direction your face is turned toward the sun—but know this: all is well. And for everything that isn’t, it will be. God may not reveal every detail of His plans, but He is always working. Whatever we face in this life, we were never meant to face it alone.

Keep P R E S S I N G. And when you grow weary, lean into God’s Word.

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With love,

Alexis Lee

Certified Life Coach

Resilience Coaching 🌴🦋✨

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