Despair is never the last word. The risen Christ comes to us, and leads us to newness of life. When we experience the joys of life, like the birth of children or grandchildren, it does not mean that the sorrows are over. In fact they may be just beginning. But Good Friday is balanced by Easter and Easter by Good Friday.
Life is never all joy or all sorrow.
It is the interweaving which creates the fabric of life. Jesus Christ is what we are, and in him is fulfilled our hearts' deepest longing. I bid you to enter deeply into these high, holy days of our faith, and discover again that it is already written in your soul.