Tragic Canvas, Beautiful Art

I don’t know if everyone is this way, but it seems as a preacher I have a theme that I come back to again and again. Something I always feel at home talking about. Something that touches my heart and I guess will always touch my heart. Something that, every time I preach or teach about it, makes me feel as if I’m swimming and have just entered the current—like I’m swept along by a power much, much greater than myself.

Anyway, this thing (for me) is God’s presence in suffering—the reality that sometimes, as hard as it is to accept, the greatest blessings of our life are the tragedies. 

And I don’t know if I’ve ever seen that truth as beautifully or powerfully communicated as it is in this short feature.

Enjoy.

“The perfect ones are the ones that get thrown away.” —Most insightful thing I’ve heard in a month.