The beauty and joy we celebrate on Easter are the heart of faith in Jesus. Yet no matter how hard we try to set aside even a single day for such a celebration, we are confronted by the ongoing presence of pain, struggle, suffering, and sin in our own lives and in the world around us. If Jesus beat death when he walked out of a tomb, why do we continue to see evidence of death all around us? Can the resurrection actually make sense of the continued presence of death and difficulty, pointing us toward the best story possible – the one where the flames of our sorrow do not consume us, but become part of our path to new life, allowing us to join Jesus in his resurrection?