I believe that joy is what our tears were all about and what our faith is all about too. Not happiness. Happiness comes when things are going our way, which makes it only a forerunner to the unhappiness that inevitably follows when things stop going our way, as in the end they will stop for all of us. Joy, on the other hand does not come because something is happening or not happening, but every once in a while rises up out of simply being alive.

— Frederick Buechner, Secrets in the Dark