The Joy That Rises

Scripture  

Habakkuk 3:17–18 (NRSVUE)  

Though the fig tree does not blossom  

and no fruit is on the vines;  

though the produce of the olive fails  

and the fields yield no food;  

though the flock is cut off from the fold  

and there is no herd in the stalls,  

yet I will rejoice in the Lord;  

I will exult in the God of my salvation.

Refrain  

Even now, joy rises in me.

Quote

Desmond Tutu  

“Discovering more joy does not, I’m sorry to say,  

save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak.  

In fact, we may cry more easily,  

but we will laugh more easily, too.  

Joy is a discipline.  

Not a denial of pain,  

but a way of holding it with grace.  

It is how we lean into the promise  

that suffering does not have the final word.”

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