The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning.

Ecclesiastes 7:4

It is said of Jesus that he was "a man of sorrows and familiar with suffering" (Isaiah 53:3). That’s what you probably need now, someone who is familiar with suffering. Someone who’s passed through this door and come out the other side.

And yet, according to Scripture, grief is not entirely negative. It gives us a heart of wisdom—it deposits a spiritual and emotional understanding that is not found on the outskirts of human existence, but at the very center of what it really means to be alive.