Joy Is Not Betraying Your Grief

The sun is rising, and for a moment, the warmth on your face feels like a lie. You worry that to feel this light is to forget the one you lost.

That joy is a betrayal. But look at the birds—they do not carry yesterday's storm into this new sky.

The light that broke the darkness last night is the same light breaking it now. It does not ask you to choose between your grief and this morning.

It holds both. The love you carry for what is gone is not a weight to drop; it is the very ground you walk on.

And the light is here, not to erase the pain, but to walk with you through it. You are not leaving your loved one behind by breathing in this air.

You are carrying them forward.