Life Isn’t Fair

In this excerpt from Gillian Marchenko’s memoir on her battle with depression, Still Life, her husband, a pastor named Sergei describes the reality that both life, and marriage, are often not as would have expected, nor what we would have hoped. And yet, even in the midst of the disappointment, there is a lesson of grace to be learned:

Sergei preached a sermon from the book of Matthew once about the difference between fairness and faithfulness. In Jesus’ parable, a man employed people to work in his fields. Some worked…