Right? If you're gonna go through the fire, you might as well dance, you might as realize and recognize that Christ is with you.

And that is what gives us our greatest solace.

That the issue and the problems that you're going through are designed by God to draw you closer to him

so that your roots do not grow deeper in this planet.

They don't grow down, but they grow up, that we become homesick for a home that we've never

been to.

Right?

Piper, he said, our sorrows are not random.

They are divine appointments.

And C.S. Lewis has a lot to say about this.

Maybe Oscar is gonna get into it.

But Oscar, C.S. Louis wrote a whole book about grieving and disappointment, a grief observed.

If you grab a hold of one of the first editions of that book, C.S.

Lewis's name is not written on that book.

He used a pseudonym.

He did not want anybody to know that he was suffering as much as he was suffering, that

he had this inner turmoil so much so that he was going through it, that he actually had his

constituents that were coming up to him and saying,

you need to read that book. That book is what you're going through.

Wow.

Until finally he came clean, and it was all birth from, he married a woman named Joy Davidman,

and he married her out of convenience, if you would. It wouldn't be love is defined today,

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