Your Joy Is Not A Betrayal

The morning light is here, and with it comes the strange, sharp guilt of having laughed while they were gone. You feel that your joy is a betrayal, a theft from their memory.

But the light does not ask you to carry their absence as a permanent weight. Jesus sighed before he spoke life into the silence, feeling the full weight of the loss before he offered healing.

That sigh means your grief is seen, even when your laughter returns. Thomas says if you bring forth what is within you, it will save you—and the capacity to laugh is still within you, waiting to be released.

Do not bury the joy to prove your love. The light came not to freeze you in sorrow, but to restore you to your root, where grief and gladness can coexist without canceling each other out.

You are allowed to breathe again.