The Hardest Part: Daily Lent Guide

"To be human is to carry the weight of our own mortality. We love the joy and triumph of Easter morning, but first, we have to sit with Good Friday, when God is on the losing team. Jesus, who we look to for hope and healing, suffers and dies. His pain is real, just like ours. We can’t rush past it. We can’t skip to the good part, because it’s through the deepest hurt that we begin to understand what it means to be fully human, fully broken.

In The Hardest Part: Hurt We Carry, Hope We Find, we’ll walk through these paradoxes together.

Each day, we’ll look at the hardest parts of being human—heartbreak, emptiness, shame, and longing—and acknowledge the weight of it. You’ll find Scripture, a reflection, a response prompt,

and a blessing to remind you that grace has a way of sneaking in, even when life feels impossible (kind of like finding your phone after you’ve torn the house apart for the fifth time).

So, let’s do this hard part together. Let’s sit with the ache and the fragile parts we’d rather avoid, and trust that hope is somewhere nearby, waiting for us to notice. Because when we stay with the

hard part, something else happens: the good part begins to unfold, slowly but surely."