What are your expectations of life? Whatever they are, they must include the realization that there will always be some measure of unsatisfied longing. This is just the reality of a sin-cursed world. As we experience life, there is a constant sense that something is off. This is not the way it was meant to be. This feeling is the groaning described by Paul in Romans 8, of a people and a creation longing for things to be made right. As we experience death, barrenness, drought, and loss, we are reminded that if in this life only we have hope, we would be miserable. But for the Christian, even the severest losses of life do not produce misery because they are experienced with the accompanying reality that not only does God provide the grace to bear the trial, but He is also provided the ultimate and complete victory over life through the resurrection of the dead. Yes, life will have a measure of dissatisfaction, but it will finally yield to complete satisfaction. That is the expectation of the believer.