How to Suffer Well | Ep 88

How do we suffer well when life brings pain, sorrow, anxiety, depression, or loss?In this episode, Brian Fisher continues the Kingdom Dwellers mini-series by exploring another hidden quality of deep discipleship: learning how to suffer well. Suffering is not good in itself, and followers of Jesus are not invited to pretend pain is easy, noble, or simple. Yet suffering often becomes part of the long journey into deeper spiritual formation.Drawing from C.S. Lewis’s The Problem of Pain, Hinds’ Feet on High Places, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Psalm 13, and Curt Thompson’s work on suffering in community, Brian asks what it means to move through pain with honesty, hope, and trusted relationships.Ultimately, this episode suggests that suffering well means suffering authentically and in community. Rather than hiding behind Christian clichés, isolating ourselves, or pretending everything is fine, deep disciples learn to lament, tell the truth, receive comfort, and allow suffering to become part of the slow formation of perseverance, hope, and love.Join us online! Web: ⁠⁠soilandroots.org⁠⁠ Substack: ⁠ https://soilandroots.substack.com/