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Who is the most joyful person you know? How do you feel when you’re around them? I light up when I think of the most joyful people I know. They’re fun to be around; the atmosphere changes when they walk into a room. I can feel down and struggling, and after ten minutes with one of them, something shifts inside of me. Their joy is contagious, encouraging. But something has happened in the last several years. The joy quotient for most people, even followers of Jesus, has taken a dive. Without rehashing all the negative long-term outcomes of Covid, let’s be honest, it was like a dark cloud that hovered over the whole earth, and some of us continue to be affected by it to this day.
My own joy level took a dramatic dip over the last few years after two back surgeries. Toward the end of that recovery, my wife, Theresa, said in a very kind but penetrating
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