"The Bright Sadness" | It's Not Just You

Title: The Bright Sadness

October 18

Teacher: Charlie McMahan

Group Questions:

1 “It takes grasping for God several times in your life to eventually rest in a bright sadness.” How many times can you remember when you were so desperate you “grasped for God”?

2 Job 42:12 says, “The Lord blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the first.” In what way does this stir up hope in you, in a way that can increase “bright sadness” in you?

3 The central question in Job is, Could a human being hold onto God and faith and love and give when it does not seem to pay off at all? And Job does. How will you know you can?

4 What is the result of a life that has grieved but grieved well and true? Finish this statement: “Our mature years are characterized by a kind of _________ _____________ and a ___________ happiness.”