Anyone relate to thinking that life will be x, but then it’s not even y … it ends up being q? Or t? Or 27?

How do we deal with these unmet expectations besides throwing clichés and sprinkling a lil’ Jesus on it?

Author, teacher, and broadcaster Sheridan Voysey offers zero clichés and all real-life learning how to suffer well with his own version of facing “When Life Doesn’t Go as Planned.”

Get it, fam. <3

Highlights:

“You think about trying for a child? Every month there is an expectation followed by disappointment. An expectation followed by disappointment … That’s the first three or four months for many couples. Often, after that, expectation is met with excitement. For us, it just kept going month after month after month, then year after year after year. That picks away at your very being.” –Sheridan Voysey

“I will not give you clichés [and say] Jesus is the wonderful self-help guru we always want him to be–He smiles at us with pearly white teeth and all our problems go away. No. [But], this very darkness you are going through, that you are waiting and you are hungering and you are hoping for with that new birth, God can be doing things in you right now under the surface without you even realizing it that are all part of making you who are called to be.” –Sheridan Voysey

“When you built your life on a few key identities and they are taken away? That’s when you discover how deep this idea that may be that— like me—you’ve preached about, written about, shared with your friends, this idea that *we are a child of God.* When you have the other identities taken away, that’s when you discover whether or not that truth actually penetrated into the deepest depths of your being.” —Sheridan Voysey

Question of the Week for Next Week:

What fact about the world makes your jaw drop and perhaps worship God?

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