Your Joy Is Not A Theft

The laughter fades, and the silence rushes in to tell you that your joy was a theft. It whispers that to be happy while others suffer is a betrayal.

But the light does not ask you to carry the world's pain as penance for breathing. There was a man born blind, and his disciples asked whose sin had caused it—his or his parents'.

They believed suffering was a debt to be paid. The light answered: neither.

His condition was not a punishment, and his healing was not a crime. Your joy is not a stone taken from someone else's path.

It is the evidence that the light is working in you, even now. Go home to your own house and tell them how much the light has done for you.

The world needs your wholeness, not your hollowed-out guilt.