Jubilant is one of those words that sounds like what it is. This week’s photo challenge put a smile on my face just thinking about it.
Jubilant means all these things — (what would I do without Google?):
overjoyed, exultant, triumphant, joyful, rejoicing, exuberant, elated, thrilled, gleeful, euphoric, ecstatic, enraptured, in raptures, walking on air, in seventh heaven, on cloud nine; over the moon, on top of the world, tickled pink, on a high
This picture of a dear friend captures our jubilant mood as we walked along a beach on a rainy winter day. The weather did not deter her from taking off her shoes and jumping for joy! Even though the water was cold. Even though the rainy mist got into our very bones. It was warm, afterall.
There were three of us that day, enjoying a retreat of our making, rejoicing in each other’s company, praying together, worshipping together, being silly…together.
Then our mouths were filled with laughter; our tongues sang for joy. Then it was said among the nations, “The LORD had done great things for them.” The LORD has done great things for us; Oh, how happy we were! [Psalms 126:2-5]