True Joy

Hey guys! Remember me telling you about Remis? Well, my boss asked me to write a short piece for a TWR magazine called "Connection" and I decided to write about Remis. I thought I'd share it with you so you can get to know him a little better. Here's a blurb:

Meet Remis: energetic, pensive, a visionary, joyful. He's the director of the Good News Center, TWR’s partner in Lithuania. Sometimes he substitutes dancing for walking and he consistently turns every other sentence into song (e.g. “It’s a lovely d-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-y!”). Before he was involved in ministry, he was a nightclub disc jockey in Dubai. Now, he has a passion for deteriorating Lithuania, for the youth, for his countrymen, for expats. Whatever the job, he approaches it with joy despite personal difficulties or challenges.

I met Remis when I traveled to Lithuania to interview partners from GNC. Through the interviews and time spent with this brother, the Lord began to show me the meaning of true joy. I thought I knew. But I didn’t.

Joy transcends beyond circumstances, beyond emotion. It’s a lifestyle that results from walking closely with the Father. It’s a perspective – a way of seeing things through a Spirit-filled lens. And it’s the visible effect of what happens when you take God at His word.

I’m thankful to Remis for being faithful and consequently allowing others to be blessed by his joy. It’s like a beautiful photograph that I could look at over and over again. And one that I hope to reproduce for others to see.

“I will be glad and rejoice in you; I will sing praise to your name, O Most High,” Psalm 9:2.