Although we cannot command it, we choose joy, making a deliberate commitment to happiness (essentially another word for peace).

In grief, part of the pain comes from our feeling that we should not suffer so - that it is fundamentally alien to our being, this even though we all suffer, and frequently. Yet we reject suffering as a basic human truth, while greeting joy as integral to our very substance.

This is the real power of joy, to make us certain that, beneath all grief, the most fundamental of realities is joy itself.