I don’t know if I am amused or annoyed at all the rapidity change seems to control my thinking and emotions. Golly, my life experiences that at an ever increasing rate.
For two years I’ve been saddled with pain. The pain has been slipping into sadness. Now — entering the fourth year, it seems that I’m not slipping, but leaping into the positive — meaning joy.
My wife never wanted me to experience sorrow or pain. I think she would consider that tearing at our relationship. To continue (or even expand) our love, it would have to put joy back into control.
This all sounds good and I am moving in that direction. The sorrow of my loss that was covering me is being stripped away by the joy that helped define my wife. I feel that our love is being enhanced by the reduction of my pain to the positive emotion I am learning is her exiting from her physical pain. “Hooray”
Sorrow does not cast out sorrow — joy does.
