Good morning everyone and welcome back to another mornings with the masters where we devote

ourselves to the Lord daily with you. Good morning, guys. Good morning indeed. We're picking

up with day two of our devotion to the Bible. I have titled, and the hands of a fiercely

tender God. There's a link to that in the description if you guys want to follow along

with us. And this one has a scripture all up in it just like yesterday, and it's insanely

powerful. So we can't wait for it. So Tori is going to take it from here.

All right. Goal. Keep in mind, this is written from a perspective of a family sharing

a story. So let's dive in. It says this, I remember the spring of 2009, that corner booth

in the little cafe where I met with God before the sun came up every morning. I sat

with my coffee, Bible, journal, and CS Lewis's book, The Problem of Pain. I experienced

the nearness and tenderness of God in a way I've never quite been able to put into words.

It was a season of suffering back then too, but those were sacred other worldly moments

that gave meaning to my pain. And I remember the summer I was 33 and still single. I left

behind extremely stressful circumstances to spend three weeks visiting my best friends

from coast to coast. We sat in the sun, sipped coffee, took walks, talked late, and

laughed hard. I experienced the kindness and joy of Jesus in a way that has marked me

ever since. God often tells us in scripture to remember who he is and what he has done

for us. But suffering can make us forgetful. Our minds are overwhelmed with our present

pain or the complexities of surviving another day. We become a child, fixated on his scraped

and bleeding knee in the middle of Disneyland. Caught up in his pain, he loses sight of

the magic and marvels all around him. In the book of lamentations, the prophet Jeremiah

describes the suffering that would cause most of us to forget the goodness of God, especially

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