Our hearts are filled with joy this morning. Together we have endured uncertainty, hope, fear, grief, and now joy during the four months since they were abducted in Baghdad.

"Live. Breathe. It is not fear that we need to live by, but joy, hope. Inside you, in your ocean, maybe it seems barren; maybe it feels as if there is no hope, no kindness, no reason for happiness. But deep within you, undeniably, something rumbles, cries out, wants to be born. Allow the joy to come forward. Allow the hope to exist."

Families are going through a lot of grief, a lot of uncertainty,

There's a lot of fear and uncertainty around this election. We hope things will be well, and the people of Haiti will be safe.

There is a great deal of fear and uncertainty out there. On the one hand it's sad to see peoples' lives disrupted and destroyed. On the other hand, people are worrying about how they are going to pay their gasoline bills and their home heating bills this winter. It makes for a pretty bleak view of the future.

Even his griefs are a joy, long after, to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured