When you face all kinds of trials,
the infirmities of older age,
the insecurities of being a young person,
the struggles with loneliness,
painful confusion about sexuality,
the collapse of beloved institutions,
a marriage that has seen happier days,
tensions within the family,
you name it!
then again I say to you, this is pure joy!
“Joy?” you ask.
Grin and bear it, maybe.
Dig in and get through the trouble, perhaps.
Maybe even patience.
But joy?
This is the kind of stuff that strips me of any capacity for joy.
Economic anxiety,
worries about the future,
deep internal pain,
that debilitating sense of loss,
that impending death in so many areas of our lives …
and you say we should receive all this with joy?
Pure joy?
Yes, my friends, joy.
I understand that all of this is hard.
I’ve been there, I know.
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