Stepping Into the Bigger Story

By Serena Puang, DC ‘22. Serena is majoring in Linguistics.

Growing up in church, it was always assumed that we knew and believed in the fundamental goodness of God. We sang hymns about it and repeated it to each other so often that sometimes, I’ll admit, it became kind of like a joke: someone would share an annoyance from their week and punctuate it with “but God is good...all the time”.

But what does it mean to really believe that God is good especially when your circumstances aren’t?