Wherever There is Sadness

Wherever there is sadness: 

the last line of the first half of Saint Francis's Prayer seems to be asking for a complete transformation, maybe even bypassing the current emotion of sadness and putting on a false from of joy. Where there is sadness, joy, is a lot to ask for, and most especially when we find ourselves immersed in the heaviness of our sadness. Yet what's prayed for here isn't bypassing at all, nor even a request to transform the presence of sadness into something other than it is right now -

what we prayer for is recognition.

where there is sadness...

joy.

it's more truly known that both my coexist at the same moment, not one replacing the other, but that there's an ever present joy in simply being alive and able to experience the fullness of all that life offers, and that this sense of joy only awaits our recognition to be known. 

wherever there is sadness...

joy

even in the very moment of our deepest sorrow.  

and this is what we prayer for,

~

Love, Eric 

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