Purity and Joy Are Not Bedfellows

I think there's some element of like shame to it. Most Puritans, I think this is right, are not that interested in joy. We have sort of actively crossed the imagined threshold between us. And so when you get together with your people who are your beloveds, that might be a place where we actually are like, okay, like, let's put this on the table a little bit because I can't carry it by myself.