An unexpected divorce. An aging parent’s diagnosis. An unnerving wait in an emergency room. An untimely death of a friend.  Events like these can shake even the most stoic among us. We detest conflict. We dislike difficult diagnoses. We despise death.  And we should detest, dislike, and despise disruptive life events because they remind us that life is not the way it should be.  Yet Jesus, on the eve of his crucifixion, told his disciples that though they would have trouble and tribulation in this world, they were to “Take heart! Have courage!” (John 16:33). How could Jesus tell his disciples (or even himself, for that matter) to “take heart!”,…