How to React to Your Pain

One person endures the death of a parent or divorce and comes out on the other side deeply connected to god. But then another comes out angry, embittered, depressed, addicted,. What's the difference? How we respond to our suffering. And for this, we need one another. The church. Belong to this family. Your thers and sisters. Bring your pain to the table of community, to the sanctuary of worship. Mourn whith those who mourn. Hold oneAnother up. Do not hide. Let one another hurt without being destroyed or warped by it. Don't succumb to the skulking predators of bitterness and hatred. Hurt, but do not give in