For many of us, the journey of following Jesus is not the ‘skipping into the soft focus sun-shiny distance through fields of daisies and butterflies’ but an often brutal, desolate, hard stumble into darkness. When we live in the kingdom of God, in the will of God, an easy life is never guaranteed, a safe life is never a certainty.
Have there been times in your life when you felt like life was brutal, desolate and full of darkness? How has this impacted your thoughts about or faith in God?