Joy

• Take this joy with you. You are allowed to feel it. You always were.
• practice Empathy, Compassion and Joy. Dance and sing daily"
• Joy is not the absence of sorrow. Joy is the stubborn spark that survives it. It can coexist with grief, with uncertainty, with the mess of a life fully lived.
• Small joys count. The smell of coffee. The sound of rain on a window. A song that finds you at just the right moment. Let them count.

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. — Henri Nouwen