We receive many good gifts from God, but life is also filled with much pain and sorrow. That pain has the power to make us bitter, and that bitterness can seep out in our relationships with other people.
David Brooks says that “pain that is not transformed is transmitted.” If that’s true, then how can the pain we all experience be transformed?
Peter spoke to a congregation experiencing severe trials, but he saw in those trials the possibility of redemption.
