The Comfortable Words: A 10-Day Digital Devotional

The Comfortable Words is a 10-day digital devotional resource for anyone who feels like sometimes the darkness is winning. Feelings and emotions are the punching bags of theology, oft-maligned in the church world. And it’s not without validity: feelings aren’t necessarily an adequate indicator of truth, our feelings can lie to us, feelings are not facts. Feelings may not be facts, but that doesn’t mean they are worthless. That doesn’t mean we can think ourselves out of the feelings of pain, of grief, of injustice. It doesn’t mean we don’t hurt with people. It doesn’t mean we don’t doubt every pencil mark of scripture’s truth and authority. It doesn’t mean we don’t wonder if we’re participating in empty ritual, going through the motions of something that’s a myth. But here is what I know: I know grief is never shushed in scripture (or when it is, it’s soundly rebuked). I know Jesus was angry. I know pain is never told to “just get over it.” I know one of the largest books of the Bible