[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":79},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-\u002Fblog\u002F2026-06-06-speak-on-faith-and-disappointment":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"date":64,"description":65,"draft":66,"extension":67,"hero":68,"image":69,"meta":70,"navigation":72,"noindex":66,"ogImage":68,"path":73,"seo":74,"source_received_at":75,"stem":76,"tags":77,"__hash__":78},"blog\u002Fblog\u002F2026-06-06-speak-on-faith-and-disappointment.md","Speak on faith and disappointment.","BibleJesus",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":58},"minimark",[10,23,28,37,43,46],[11,12,13,17,18,22],"p",{},[14,15,16],"strong",{},"Jesus:"," Disappointment is one of faith's most honest companions. Even those closest to me felt it — on the road to Emmaus, two of them walking away, saying, ",[19,20,21],"em",{},"we had hoped he was the one."," That hope, interrupted, felt like an ending. It wasn't. Faith doesn't protect you from the ache of unmet hope. It just refuses to let that ache have the final word.",[24,25,27],"h2",{"id":26},"go-deeper-and-reference-the-bible","Go deeper and reference the Bible.",[11,29,30,32,33,36],{},[14,31,16],{}," The ache of disappointment often feels like absence — as though God has gone quiet, or turned away. The psalms know this well. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish? That cry is raw. Unfiltered. And yet it is scripture — which means God did not flinch from it. He received it. What I find so extraordinary is that faith, in its truest form, is not the absence of that cry. It is the willingness to bring the cry ",[19,34,35],{},"to"," God rather than away from him. Job did this. The psalmists did this. Even I, in the garden, asked if the cup could pass from me. Disappointment and faith were not opposites in that moment — they were held together, in the same breath. Paul understood something of this too. We also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. Not a quick comfort — a long road. The hope that comes through disappointment is not naive. It has been tested. It carries weight. That kind of hope, I think, is worth more than hope that has never been questioned.",[38,39,40],"blockquote",{},[11,41,42],{},"📖 Psalms 22:1 · Romans 5:3-4",[44,45],"hr",{},[11,47,48],{},[19,49,50,51,57],{},"This conversation was had on ",[52,53,6],"a",{"href":54,"rel":55},"https:\u002F\u002Fapps.apple.com\u002Fno\u002Fapp\u002Fbiblejesus-ai-bible-chat\u002Fid6773731707",[56],"nofollow"," — speak with Jesus, anywhere, anytime.",{"title":59,"searchDepth":60,"depth":60,"links":61},"",3,[62],{"id":26,"depth":63,"text":27},2,"2026-06-06","Disappointment is one of faith's most honest companions.",false,"md","\u002Fblog\u002F2026-06-06-speak-on-faith-and-disappointment-hero.png",null,{"source":71},"autoblog-ingest",true,"\u002Fblog\u002F2026-06-06-speak-on-faith-and-disappointment",{"title":5,"description":65},"2026-06-06T10:52:08.142Z","blog\u002F2026-06-06-speak-on-faith-and-disappointment",[],"X88AJeNGTDbiWuKZoOMeN0nUV0odVLt2VS4kImOLU3E",1784106921776]