Have you ever been in a group of people where someone told a joke and everyone else laughed except you? "I don't get it. I missed the point." Or have you ever been in the middle of a discussion where another person makes a persuasive point and everyone else nods their head in agreement -- except you? "I don't get it. I missed the point." 

That's sometimes how it is with life -- sometimes we miss the point of it. Sometimes life doesn't make any sense. We experience disappointment, or our days seem filled with meaningless activity, or we are faced with crisis upon crisis. Sometimes we just can't figure it out. We miss the point. Like when we miss the point of a joke, we feel as if we have been missing out on the fun of it all. What's the sense of it all? 

The same can happen to faith. We…