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What if you had a friend that was only willing to hear your happy stories, but not willing to listen to you speak about the hard things in your life that shaped you, changed you? What if they loved celebrating with you when good things were happening, but never wanted to be with you when you were in pain? Would you consider that person a true friend? Probably not, but this is what many of us do with God. We like to hear some bible stories, but not others. We like to think about all the happy things about God and not think about the things about God that make us uncomfortable; His wrath, His sorrow, some of those stories in the bible that make us say, "Whaaaaat?"  This week is about one of those stories, and its an invitation to look deeper into the Heart of God, to empathize with the hardest thing God ever had to do.