Question: What brought you joy this week?
Nothing brought me joy this week, but that's only because joy never leaves. On Thursday it rose like bubbles, up and out of my mouth with childish exuberance, as I watched my son perform at a concert, but mostly, it sits quietly with me, as present as the breath in my lungs.
This morning joy sang softly to me, a ballad of remembrance. Joy sang of God's deliverance in everything, and murmured to me that the darkness I believe is depression, is merely His womb, and He will give birth to me, in His time. But for now, to just rest in the tender circle of His walls, nourished through the cord of grace that connects me to Him.
Joy never leaves us. Like love, it never fails, though sometimes it stands in waiting. Letting patience perfect us. Letting God prune us. Collecting our leaves and branches, as they fall, swirling in circles to the ground. [email protected]
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