| It is only a matter of time before
it is our "time to mourn."
Ecclesiastes 3:4
Then
Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and
mourned for his son many days.
All
his sons and daughters came to comfort him, but
he refused to be comforted. "No," he
said, "in mourning will I go down to the
grave to my son." So his father wept for
him.
Genesis 37:34-35 |
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I
just didn't believe that this could
happen to us." It comes
uninvited and is never in a hurry to
leave. To some measure, it will occupy a
room in your heart for a long time. We
are never the same after tragedy strikes
us. We get through it, but not over it.
The
Bible doesn’t shy away from the
reality of grief. |
It recognizes what people
go through when they lose a spouse (Ruth 1:4–5)
A child (Genesis 37:34-35)
A friend who dies before
you had a chance to say good-bye (2 Samuel 1:26)
Still,
we wonder what the point of it all is. |
