The promise of joy … is not simply an answer, so much as it is an affirmation. It’s the guarantee of God’s grace when all that is good seems so far away. It’s the security of God’s love when it appears that love is nowhere to be felt, especially from those you want to love you. It is this hope that carries us – that even in the darkest places, God’s abiding and our abiding in God will fill us with God’s joy and our joy may be complete.