Push and Pull

 You know that feeling? That indescribable feeling that hits you, both in joy and in sorrow, that makes you feel like you're getting pulled apart and put back together at the same time? It breaks you, and then it heals you fully?

That's grace. 

Where sin abounds, grace abounds much more. - Romans 5:20

There is no other source for joy than this - to be able to comprehend both the pulling apart and putting back together at the same time, and to understand that it is only Jesus that enables us to accomplish both. 

“All Joy reminds. It is never a possession, always a desire for something longer ago or further away or still 'about to be'.” - C.S. Lewis, "Surprised by Joy"