#571: The Burden of Joy
An Easter meditation.
The imperative to rejoice in the Lord is so fundamental to the Christian life that Paul repeats it three times in his letter to the Philippians. “Rejoice in the Lord,” he writes in 3:1, before returning to the theme in the fourth chapter: “Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice” (4:4). The imperative is a paradoxical one: insofar as joy i…
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