Introducing Ourselves

Who is this Joy person, you might be asking.  As I have attempted to “grow up” I have found that this is not always an easy question to answer in a short sentence.  I am many things.  I am who my parents named me: Joy Maelyn Morony.  Beyond that the list gets long, so I will try to summarize.  I am an Ordained American Baptist Chaplain serving in a hospital in the Kansas City Metro Area and a Trained Veriditas Labyrinth Facilitator. I am a wife, mother, daughter, and a family member in a closely-knit family. I am a woman of faith. I am a scrapbooker, crafter, reader, First Degree Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do, Soccer mom. I love science fiction, fantasy and superheroes.  I seriously do not enjoy true to life stories and movies – I get enough of that in my day–to-day work. The list could go on, but you probably get the idea. Some days it gets very busy and it is very hard to put me in a nice neat box. I tend to shatter expected stereotypes.

So as this blog goes forward, may it be a place where we work through together what this Chaplain, Mother, Woman, Living Life thing is all about.  Stereotypes may be shattered and you will probably find out that, yes, we are real people who struggle with many of the same things you do. 

Blessings as we go forward together, and soon you will meet my fellow blogger Tabatha Johnson.