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Suffering & Trials: Making Sense of Hard Seasons

Suffering does not always have a lesson — but it always has a Companion. Fourteen days on making sense of hard seasons without cheap answers.

Suffering & Trials: Making Sense of Hard Seasons

How this Journey works

The Bible never promises you will not suffer. It promises you will not suffer alone. The hardest thing about pain is not the pain itself — it is the silence, the feeling that God left the room, the suspicion that maybe you did something to deserve this.

This journey does not offer platitudes. It sits in the ashes with Job and the Psalms of lament and asks honest questions. Zoe will not rush you toward a lesson or a silver lining. Sometimes the bravest prayer is just showing up broken.

The 14 days.

A passage for each day, and a question to carry with you.

  1. 01

    Job 1:20-22

    Worship in the Wreckage

    What has been taken from you that you are still grieving?

  2. 02

    Psalm 22:1-2

    Why Have You Forsaken Me

    Have you ever felt abandoned by God? What did you do with that feeling?

  3. 03

    Romans 8:28

    All Things

    Do you actually believe this, or does it feel like a greeting card when you are in pain?

  4. 04

    2 Corinthians 1:3-5

    Comforted to Comfort

    What pain in your past has equipped you to sit with someone else in theirs?

  5. 05

    James 1:2-4

    Count It Joy

    What is this trial producing in you that comfort never could?

  6. 06

    Psalm 34:18

    Near to the Brokenhearted

    When you are at your lowest, do you believe God moves closer or further away?

  7. 07

    John 11:33-36

    Jesus Wept

    If Jesus cried at a funeral He was about to reverse, what does that tell you about grief?

  8. 08

    Lamentations 3:19-24

    New Every Morning

    What mercy are you overlooking because the pain is louder?

  9. 09

    1 Peter 4:12-13

    Do Not Be Surprised

    What suffering did you assume was a sign God was angry, when maybe it is just life in a broken world?

  10. 10

    Isaiah 53:3-5

    A Man of Sorrows

    Jesus suffered not because He had to learn something, but because He loved you. How does that reframe your pain?

  11. 11

    Psalm 88

    The Psalm With No Resolution

    Sometimes prayer ends without an answer. Can you stay in the room with God even when He is silent?

  12. 12

    Habakkuk 3:17-19

    Yet I Will Rejoice

    What would faith look like if nothing about your situation improved?

  13. 13

    Romans 5:3-5

    Suffering Produces

    What character is being formed in you that you would never have chosen on your own?

  14. 14

    Revelation 21:4

    Every Tear Wiped Away

    Until that day, how do you want to carry your suffering — with bitterness, or with something else?

Let the thread carry it.

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