Tntroduction Emotions—you feel a lot of them every day. Some are pleasant, and some are less so. Either way, they are an important part of the way God made you. They tell you how the world around you is affecting you. In this book, you will learn to recognize the emotion of sadness: when you have a heavy heart, when your eyes fill with tears, when you don't want to do anything that you normally enjoy, and when life seems drab and colorless. You will also learn not to let yourself be trapped by sadness. With Elliot and Charlotte, you will discover tools that will help you to accept this emotion, and the loss that might have caused it, and then to move beyond it. In each story—with the help of small drawings in the margins—you will be able to follow the steps taken by Elliot and Charlotte to see that sadness is a normal part of life and that through the virtues of altruism, hope, and gratitude they can find joy again.
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