shadows and sunshine

You don’t need to experience an abusive, narcissistic marriage to know what a good one is like. 

You don’t need to experience childbirth pains to know what ecstasy feels like. 

You don’t need to eat rotten food to know what delicious cooking tastes like. 

You don’t need to walk through devastating grief to know what joy feels like. 

You actually don’t need the shadow to prove the sunshine. 

so maybe —

you don’t need an eternal hell of suffering for the gospel to be good news.