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In the second message in Pastor Darren's summer series on recent Broadway musicals, a diner waitress who names her feelings in pies might be the last place you expect to find a lesson on Christian self-worth, but "The Waitress" goes straight to the questions many of us avoid: What happens when your life stops feeling like it belongs to you? How do you come back from choices you regret, harm you didn’t deserve, or a future that arrived before you were ready?

We walk through Jenna Hunterson’s story, from a trapped marriage and an unwanted pregnancy to an affair that makes everything messier, and a desperate plan to save prize money for a clean start. When that plan collapses, the real work begins: finding the inner strength to leave what is crushing her, reject what is not love, and take ownership of her life. That arc opens a bigger conversation about identity, agency, and what “starting over” actually costs.

Then we bring it home to faith. We unpack the tension Christians feel about pride, drawing a clear line between healthy pride that celebrates doing good with God and ego that pretends we don’t need God at all. Psalm 139 anchors the whole message, reminding us we are fearfully and wonderfully made, fully known, and not able to outrun God’s presence, like the relentless love in The Runaway Bunny. We end with the emotional punch of “She Used to Be Mine,” and the hope that God can lead us back to who we were created to be.

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