If God is Good, Then What Do I Do with This?
God is Good - Even Now Conference May 12-14
God is Good ā Even Now Summit, May 12ā14, 2026.
Hey friend,
Thereās a question I never seem to get too far away from. Maybe you can relate:
If God is goodā¦ then what do I do with this?
This loss. This silence. This version of life that showed up without asking.
It doesnāt always announce itself. Sometimes it just settles in underneath things ā underneath the way you read a passage, the way you pray (or donāt), the way you move through a day that looks fine from the outside and feels like something else entirely on the inside.
I know that place.
What Iāve come to believe ā slowly, sometimes reluctantly ā is that the question itself isnāt a problem to fix. Itās not evidence that your faith is failing or your theology is thin. It might actually be one of the more honest things youāve ever brought to God.
We spend so much energy trying to resolve the tension. Looking for the explanation that makes it all fit again. And sometimes... it just doesnāt fit. And sitting with that ā really sitting with it, without performing peace you donāt feel ā thatās its own kind of faithfulness.
Thatās what Iām encouraging you to make space for in the God is Good ā Even Now Summit, May 12ā14, 2026.
Not a tidy resolution. Not answers dressed up as comfort. Just:
Honest conversation about what it means to trust a God when life doesnāt make sense
Scripture that can hold complexity without collapsing under it
A community of people who are asking the same hard questions out loud
And the slow, stubborn reminder that Godās goodness doesnāt evaporate when our confusion deepens
And Iāll be doing a session, day two, on grief as well as giving away free copies of indigo: the color of grief.
Just wanted to make sure you knew about this event that my friend, Sarah Howley and others are putting together!
ā Jonathan
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