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LEADER’S NOTES36• Matt 17:1-9 – Transfiguration• Matt 26:36-46 – Immediately before the crossLESSON 4: HEALINGQuestion 2:God is the place to go when we are overwhelmed or crushed from thelosses and trauma of life in a broken world.Honesty with God about our struggles is a way to process loss anddeepen our relationship.Question 3:Lies – God had abandoned him. God does not care about me. I have tomake life work on my own because I can’t trust God to come throughwhen I really need him. (The phrase “How long is used four times in thefirst two verses.)Truth – One of Yahweh’s core attributes is unfailing love, Yahweh is good.God is attentive to our prayers.Question 6:When we embrace God’s truth in the midst of trauma, we find healingand hope.Question 7:Grief and anger are replaced with joy and peaceWe learn God is enoughWe develop the capacity for more compassion and loveQuestion 8:Jesus wants us to rely on Him to find healing that we might experienceHis comfort and healing graceRELIES ON GODLESSON 5: FORGIVENESSLEADER’S GUIDE FOR FORGIVENESS:Question 2:• True forgiveness can only come after we have assessed the loss and byGod’s grace let those who offended us go free.• True forgiveness can bring on powerful emotions• Joseph forgave because he saw that God intended all that hadhappened to him for good.Question 3:• Judah said, “How can we prove our innocence? God is behind this,exposing how bad we are. We stand guilty before you and ready to beyour slaves—we are in this together, the rest of us as guilty as the one