Father Snort

Brad Sullivan 4 Easter, Year B April 22, 2018 Emmanuel, Houston 1 John 3:16-24 John 10:11-18 Give Grace Amidst Angst, and Be Healed Life is hard. It’s also great, and we’re in the Easter season, so we’re not going too far down a dark path, but life is, in addition to being great, straight up, plain, old fashioned hard. We have hurts that happen to us from the moment we are born. Fears, feelings of abandonment, loss, and that’s for kids with great parents. People let us down. We let other people down. We lose trust and faith in those we love, disease hits us and nocks whole families down, jobs are lost, security is tenuous, and we hurt and have a hard time reconciling with folks even in the best of circumstances. We end up with a lot of angst. My desire as a youth was maybe to avoid some of that. In reading scripture back in high school, I had a strong desire to follow God in all his ways, as Jesus told Satan during h