“Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!” (Philippians 4:4)
Peculiar words, I’d say.
Always?
What of days prickly and unending, too sharp to stand without bleeding and too long to see end? No break or respite. Only the breaking of will, the loss of hope and ability to be okay. Those days, rejoice?
Yes, in days cursed, in moments heavy, in the breaking of security and even in the violation of things most beautiful and sacred in life ...rejoice, friends!
When life pulls and tears, rejoice. In the thick and thin, rejoice. In danger and disturbance, in expected and unexpected, in the collapse of life and the ruin of happy, rejoice. Find full reason, drive your stakes deep into the soil and hold on with a tenacious desperation ...and rejoice.
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