Joy Is Not A Betrayal Of Love
The mask is heavy this morning, painted with a smile that feels like a lie. You are terrified that if you laugh, even for a second, you are betraying the one you lost.
As if joy were a theft from their memory. But listen — there was a father who saw his son coming home from a long way off.
He ran. Before the apology, before the speech — he ran.
The light does not ask you to carry your grief as proof of your love. It asks you to lay down the weight so you can finally breathe.
The kingdom of God is within you, not in your performance of sorrow. Your next happy moment is not a betrayal.
It is the very thing the one you lost would want for you.
Drawing from
Luke, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
Luke 17:21, Luke 15:20
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