What made ancient pagans scoff at the Christian gospel? In what ways can this help you understand the skepticism of our neighbors?What are the risks of saying that our painful memories can be transfigured? How can we take care to deepen, not cheapen, the comfort of this gospel scene?In which of those four relationships — with God, with neighbor, with creation, with ourselves — do you find the peace of God most conspicuously absent, or attenuated? What would repentance look like?