Week 2 - Terrible and Beautiful?!

You don’t have to go very far to find the wilderness. Most days we wake up living in this reality. Things in this world are not as they should be—no matter how hard we try to bright side or have a cheerful attitude. As the Dread Pirate Roberts said in The Princess Bride, “Life is pain, Highness. Anybody who says differently is selling something.” We don’t want to see it, but we need to. That’s why one of our favorite prayers is “God, let me see things as they really are.” So what are we to do here, in the meantime? We’ve

been given a template, but it’s not just a formula, it’s a person—Jesus. Though he was full of strength and wisdom and power, Jesus showed us how to navigate the beautiful and terrible (and psst, we don’t have to do it alone!).

Reflecting on this past week, what was something beautiful and what was terrible?

Or as some people say, “what is your happy and what is crappy?” (Don’t skip the crappy.

Today, we are going to hold both the good and the bad together.)