We find ourselves this week in the final chapter of the Apostle Paul’s “discourse on joy” to his congregation at Philippi. He understood that “anxiousness” is the result of the pull in our lives between hope and fear. It was Paul’s desire to equip his spiritual children with the truth that could make it possible for them to live in a place of peace and great joy for the rest of their lives, no matter what circumstances would come their way. He knew that their lives and ours, would be filled with opportunities to live in anxiety, but that they, and we, must make the “joy decision” every day in order to experience “joy for life.”