Some days are more difficult than others.

Some days involve eating seven delectable courses of Italian rustic cuisine whilst nestled in the heart of the Alps.

Other days involve news of marriages failing, personality conflicts, and worrying meetings with upper management.

Still other days are filled with news of friends' relapses or deaths.

It is easy to say that one should just turn to the Lord in these tough days. Well, of course one should. But this is not really helpful advice. It is more bumper-sticker/facebook update Christianity than true discipleship. True discipleship doesn't waste one's time with such banal and easily-offered sympathies.

Sometimes one can only endure, and hope that Christ is sufficient, whether one feels it or not. And in those times, one really needs community to remind them that God is actually good, not just theoretically good.