What does faithfulness look like in the face of grief? How do we follow the sign  God gives us when our hearts are heavy with sadness? How does God dwell among us in the midst of the heartbreak in our lives, our communities, and our world?

Perhaps the greatest gift we can give, the best answer we can offer to these hard questions, is the opportunity to rest in love and compassion, to pray together without insisting that we must be happy and carefree. Joy does not negate the difficulty of living faithfully in a broken world.

Pastor Mary’s message is based on Isaiah 40: 1-4, John 1: 1-5, 14 and Comfort.