The Secret To Finding Joy When Things Don’t Turn Out Like You Hope

My world was upside down. After 36 long hours of labor, I finally delivered our first baby who died half-way to term. I left the hospital with post-partum hormones raging, milk flowing, and enough grief to sink a ship.

Wiping away streaming tears and snot, I couldn’t help it. God got an earful. Why God?! We prayed for this baby!  We loved our baby!

The truth is, the more you love the more you hurt. The greater the bond, the greater the pain.

It’s part of being human.

Why Do We Suffer?

I like the fact that Jesus ‘gets real’ about suffering. He doesn’t sugar coat the truth.  He validates our pain, and shares secrets to finding joy in the midst of it.

One of those secrets rolled off his lips when He and his friends encountered a blind man. Puzzled by the man’s plight, the friends ask, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

It was an honest question. They were trying to make sense out of it like we do. Sudden loss.

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