Fighting for Joy Through Grief
Fighting for Joy Through Grief “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.” – Psalm 30:5 "I'm alive, awake, alert, enthuastic." That has been my answer for years when someone asks me how I'm doing or feeling. That was a motto that a I picked up while working at a Christian camp ministry over twenty years ago, and to be honest that simple phrase was the embodiment of my personality. I was a bubbly, joyful, glass half full kind of guy. I typically didn't have to fight for joy, joy seemed to be my default position from the time I opened my eyes. But then cancer came to my home and laid waste against my loving wife. That phrase vanished from my vocabulary. The spring in my step was broken, my characteristic smile was gone, my laugh melted into the beginning stages of grief. All of a sudden joy became an emotion that I had to fight for. Grief is not something you can schedule. I...