“Joy can get complicated. Our lives grow convoluted. So often, when joy comes to us, it is accompanied by other emotions that seem to be in conflict but somehow enter our lives all mixed together: joy and sorrow and gratitude and grief and… Yet when I think about joy being complicated, I am not thinking only about how it frequently has to make its way to us in the midst of other emotions.”
-Jan Richardson, from The Sanctuary Between Us
What are the other emotions mixed up with your joy today?