amen, amen, amen. God is Good, even in the worse of things. He is the God who walks with us through pain and suffering. Christ is the King who shed his own blood, as sacrifice to pay our debt. He stands with us in the fire, and walks with us through the valley of death. He is not distant, and He knows our troubles.

None of that means, suffering is gonna be easy, but hopefully you can, and I can, and we all can, find encouragement in the truth that Christ knows our suffering, He knows suffering personally, and one day, maybe many days from now, He has promises to wipe away every tear.

I believe that in that day, we will look on these hard times and this dark life and be overwhelmed with the beauty of what he is working now.

He is painting beauty with ashes.