There is no doubt that we will get through this.

We will.

We offer encouragement to one a another by reminding ourselves that we will make it to the other side of this, and encouragement is always a good thing. But it can be tempting to see that the goal is to endure the experience rather than embrace it. To simply tolerate the hardship rather than allow ourselves to be transformed by it.

Transformation doesn’t happen once we make it through this. It happens in the midst of it. It happens when we live here rather than long for there, when we embrace now rather than endure until then, and when we welcome this rather than wait for that.

Rather than camp on the hope of making it through, let’s pitch our tents right in the middle of it.