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Japanese Scripture puts joy and grief in the same sentence more often than the familiar joy-versus-happiness distinction allows. Jesus tells the disciples they have sorrow now and that their hearts will rejoice (John 16:22). Psalm 30 sets weeping at night beside joy in the morning. Habakkuk lists a complete harvest failure and then says yet I will rejoice. Scripture also gives joy a location rather than a mood: in your presence there is fullness of joy, and Jesus speaks of his…
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