The cup of sorrow and joy

“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work, and you don’t give up.” Anne Lamott

“The most helpful discovery of today has been that right in the midst of my sorrows there is always room for joy. Joy and sorrow are sisters; they live in the same house.” Macrina Wiederkehr

Today pause and look at the history of your inner seasons. Is it possible for you to accept the difficult seasons along with the joyful, ones, to see each as an essential part of your spiritual growth.

Breathprayer:

Breathing in: Joy and sorrow...

Breathing out:....living together

Reflection:

Pick up your cup and look inside.

Imagine the greatest joy of your life in the cup, spend a moment with that joy

Now imagine your sorrow in the cup

Imagine them melting together, filling the cup of your life.

Hold the cup to your heart as if holding both your joy and sorrow together in your heart, accepting their presence in your life.

Scripture: John 12:20-26

“Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit” (Jn 12:24)

Journal:

Joy and sorrow together have taught me....

Prayer:

God help me accept both the joy and the sorrow in my life, help me know how they both strengthen and complete me.