When We Stop Pretending
I met a man at church a couple weeks ago. During our meet-and-greet, he was sitting alone so my wife and I introduced ourselves. After some brief pleasantries, we asked what plans he had for the rest of the day. He told us he didn’t know. He was just struggling to get through service. He didn’t want to come to church that Sunday. He was mad at God. He is a three-time cancer survivor who lost his forty-one year old son to cancer earlier this year. It was his first Christmas se