12.5.23 // The secret ingredient to finding joy is...

The secret ingredient is you.
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It isn’t something outside of you to be found, it is something inside of you to trust.
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It is knowing that you’re always capable of joy, but never feeling pressure to force it.
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Joy is small moments, delicate, brilliant, glimmers. Joy isn’t static or a guarantee for a perpetual feeling of comfort and contentment.
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Joy is the glimmer, but we are the choice to take that glimmer and grow that spark into a fire.