Analogy
We are not given exhaustive knowledge of what is coming. We are given a God who holds what is coming. The difference matters.…
Fear · Hope · Faith
Analogy
When Expectations Break
pastoral observation
Much of our frustration is not caused by what happens but by the difference between what happens and what we had already decided should happen. Unexamined expectations become silent demands. When they break, the pain is real—and sometimes the breaking is the beginning of a more honest hope.
How you’d preach it
For the gap between what we hoped and what arrived. Disappointment is often the distance between expectation and reality.
- Hope