A couple of weekends ago I had the privilege of hearing Kate Bowler speak.

How beautiful to hear someone speak so openly about hardship, grief, imperfection, and the general messiness of life.

So often we are told things like 'life is hard but we have Jesus'. I think when we hear that, we often interpret it as; 'life is hard but you should hide the hard bits or how it's impacting you because the only thing that matters is that you have Jesus and that trumps the very human experience you are having and you should focus on Jesus and not what you're going through.'