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Good...Grief

 

Matthew 5:4

“Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.”


It is not just a cliche.

Good grief.

Grief.

How can it be good?


It is a loss.

It can be devasting.

Recovery from it seems elusive.

How can we live with it?

How can we move on?


How long does it last?

Why are people telling me to get over "It"?

Grief.

You have got to be kidding me.

Good...Grief?


I do know that it is different for everyone.

I have lived in the valley of the shadow.

I have stood in it.

I have laid in it.

I have cried...still crying


I have heard that grief is a process.

I have read that there are stages to it.

I have sunk to the bottom of its despair.

In the struggle... in the mourning

I have been blessed.


Good grief.

 The other side of it.

The blessing in mourning is to know 

The God of All Comfort.


He doesn't just show up at the family visitation.

He does not just wrap His arms around us at the funeral.

He doesn't stop breaking bread when the repast is over.


Through it all.

After all.

Always.

God is there.


His comfort is a blessing.

Evident even when we cannot see it.

Faith.


Good grief.

Accomplished by Great God.

He said we are blessed to mourn.

We shall be comforted.


Surely.

Without a doubt.

Weeping endures but for a night.

Joy will come in the morning.


It is not just a cliche.

Good... grief

It is substantiated by the Word of God.


God bless.

In Christ,

Sis. Stephanie


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