Our earthly experience means that all of us experience suffering. All of us will grieve. The Christian experience on Earth is a promise of suffering. It’s also a promise of great joy. How do these two truths exist at the same time? How do we grieve like we have an eternal hope? In a culture obsessed with the therapeutic, how do we keep our witness when life gets hard? What do we do when calling out to God isn’t our first inclination? Let’s talk cross-bearing and what Scripture says about who we are (and who we belong to) when life gets ugly.