The title of my message this week is where disappointment grows best. Where does disappointment grow best?

By the end of the sermon, we will attempt to answer that question. But disappointment is real.

It's a real thing. And to be disappointed is to have basically your predictions about the future proven wrong. That is ultimately

disappointment. It's you had this idea of what the future was going to be like and turns, as it

turns out, you're about as accurate as the weather app, which just seems to be just almost sometimes a waste of time

to even look at. Like, what's the day going to look like? If you want to know what it's not

going to look like, just listen to the weather news. But disappointment. And it could be a small thing.

I mean, something like a home you were expected to buy, looking forward to purchasing. And the last

second, someone snuck in a different offer or a better offer or just ultimately the offer that

was expected. And so now what you had your heart set on is not going to be the reality. And you

had almost already moved in in your mind. You could see where the furniture was going to go.

Maybe you already purchased the furniture. And so now you're disappointed. It could be something like a proposal that you thought

was going to be given to you. You really thought he liked you enough to put a ring on that finger.

And it's just, am I in this endless orbit of dating with no end in sight? That can be disappointing. It can be, of course,

a friendship that you thought would be a meaningful part of your life for the extended future or

forever that all of a sudden the bottom drops out on that relationship, or even just a phone call

or text message that you thought was going to

come, that you were going to be included, that you were going to be thought of, that you

were going to be cared about.

I don't know if you've been watching the impeachment FX special on Monica Lewinsky and

former President Bill Clinton, but many people in the country have been watching.

And to me, what has been so fascinating about it, among other things, is just how much hope was just shattered

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