Jesus invites us to joy. The holiness to which we are called is to know joy in its fullness. We let ourselves be drawn to the Tender One whose face is unbridled joy. We are beckoned to this locus of joy, not a reckoning with the error of our ways but God saying, unabashedly smiling, “Get over here.”
— Gregory Boyle, Forgive Everyone Everything, p. 18
Photo: Cardinal, South Riding, Virginia, December 31, 2026