Episode 276 - Where True Joys Are to Be Found

He says it plainly now, though it sounds like a riddle: It is better for you that I go. Better for sorrow to come, better for absence — because from this parting flows the Spirit, not beside us, but within. What could sound like abandonment is, in truth, the great reversal — the way the Comforter makes His home in our very breath, our wills, our joy.

This joy, impervious and unstealable, does not bypass sorrow but is born through it. It is not understanding that clarifies, but the Spirit. The Spirit who Christifies, who makes many minds into one, who takes the very life of the Son and gives it to us. This is why He leaves — that we may not be left.