Today is a day layered with emotion. It is my niece’s 18th birthday and the anniversary of my father’s passing. It is a day of celebrating and remembering. It is a day of joy and sorrow. But no matter the circumstances, it is still a good day. Life often places us in moments where two realities exist at once. We rejoice over what God is doing in the present while grieving what has been lost in the past. This tension is part of living in a fallen world — a world that still bea

...walk alongside one another through every season of life—celebrating in times of joy and offering comfort and empathy in times of sorrow.