One summer a friend stayed with us for a couple months. While she was here, she made a list of 80 things she learned from her time in our home. One of the things was that it is okay to celebrate what you did well. It’s easy to get busy with projects and day-to-day tasks and not take the time to really celebrate what’s going right in our lives. When we don’t take the time to celebrate, we can easily get in an emotional rut and may even start feeling depressed.

I’m a big believer in rejoicing i...