Joy Burns Out Pain

Joy is not the absence of pain - it’s the light that refuses to be dimmed by it. To find a place inside where there’s joy, even when the world feels heavy, is an act of quiet defiance and deep healing. That joy might be small at first - a memory, a song, a moment of being seen - but it’s real, and it matters. When we tend to it, let it grow, that inner spark becomes a fire. It doesn’t erase the pain, but it transforms it, giving us warmth, direction, and the strength to keep going. Joy, especially queer joy, is the resilience that lives at our core.