The Trinity Temple

Dear friends, There are questions that human beings can answer with facts. What time is it? How far is the moon? How does a seed grow? But there are other questions that do not surrender so easily. One of the oldest and deepest is this: Why do good people suffer? Why does a kind person become sick? Why does an honest person lose everything? Why does a faithful person experience tragedy? Why does someone who tries to live well encounter betrayal? Why does a cruel person sometimes seem to prosper while an innocent person suffers? Why does tragedy strike people who appear undeserving? And perhaps the hardest question of all: If God is good, why doesn't He stop suffering? These questions are not merely philosophical. They become painfully personal. A person loses a child. Someone is betrayed by a spouse. A family loses its home. A good person develops a terrible illness. Someone works honestly for years and still struggles financially. A person who spends their life helping others is t...

  Dear friends, There are few lessons in life more difficult than learning to let go. We know how to hold on. We hold on to people. We hold on to memories. We hold on to possessions. We hold on to our plans. We hold on to our anger. We hold on to our disappointments. We hold on to things people said to us ten years ago. We hold on to relationships that have already ended. We hold on to mistakes we made when we were younger. We hold on to the version of life we thought we were supposed to have. And sometimes we hold on so tightly that the very thing we are trying to preserve becomes the thing that is hurting us. We say: “I can't let this go.” Perhaps someone betrayed you. Perhaps someone rejected you. Perhaps you lost someone you loved. Perhaps a friendship ended. Perhaps you were treated unfairly. Perhaps your plans collapsed. Perhaps you made a terrible mistake. Perhaps you keep thinking about something that happened years ago. Perhaps you are afraid that if you let go, it means y...