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the title of this episode is toxic optimism face
the hard stuff living in extremes is not healthy

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not enough sleep or too much sleep being overly
negative or overly positive being overly negative

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is hurtful and so is being overly positive there
is much to be said about the negative but the

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same holds true for being toxically positive
in Christian circles there is this tendency to

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try to glaze over the painful and heartbreaking
moments in life by reciting what I call Christian

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platitudes this would be phrases like Time Heals
all wounds or everything happens for a reason

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or others have gone through much worse Deborah F
says that toxic optimism is when we hide behind a

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positive perspective instead of truly dealing with
the hard things it’s unhealthy to live in a state

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of negative thinking likewise it’s unhealthy to
ruminate on all the horrible things in life it’s

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also unhealthy to pretend that they don’t exist
it’s important that we allow ourselves to feel

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the difficult emotions it’s important for us to
remember that God is with us on the mountaintops

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and he is also o with us in The Valleys Psalms
34:18 of the NLT says the Lord is close to the

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Brokenhearted he rescues those who are crushed
in spirit so what does the Bible say about why

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the world is the way it is if we look to the Bible
for an explanation of why the world is as broken

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as it is and as painful as it is we will find
loads of verses explaining the Brokenness we see

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every day one of these verses is John 16:33 John
1633 Begins by saying in this world you will have

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trouble there is no sidest stepping the truth
you will have trouble this statement alone has

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great value but if we stop there we miss out on
an essential truth John 16:33 continues but take

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heart other translations say be of good cheer be
filled with joy be undaunted and be courageous

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you might be thinking that’s great Craig but why
if someone told me this I would at least ask for

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something to hold on to so you may be asking why
should we have hope let’s look at the last part

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of John 16:33 it says I have overcome the world
we can have hope because Jesus has overcome the

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world he has beaten all of the challenges we face
now I am not trying to suggest that this solves

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all of our current struggles or all our current
problems because it doesn’t we will still endure

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pain hardship heartache and the Brokenness
of this world but one day that will come to

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an end in the meantime it is important that we
acknowledge process and deal with our challenges

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the best that we can Deborah says that we can’t
tend our wounds well if we haven’t acknowledged

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their severity verse for reflection our verse
this week comes from John 16:33 it says in this

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world you will have trouble but take heart
I have overcome the world if you like the

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