Our Joy Might Come With Another Person’s Pain

This episode holds both joy and grief in the same breath.

After receiving incredible news and finally moving out of tiny living and onto the family farm, we found ourselves celebrating a long-answered prayer. And yet, in the middle of all that joy, there was an awareness I strongly felt that our last night before the move may have looked very different from my father-in-law’s last night.

In this conversation, I reflect on the quiet truth that sometimes our happiest moments can sit alongside someone else’s hardest ones. Our joy might come with another person’s pain. Our answered prayers may exist at the same time as someone else’s loss.

This episode celebrates the good while still posturing our hearts with compassion and to remain grateful without becoming unaware, and to remember that we never fully know what’s happening on the other side of our joy.

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