Grieving the Losses in Life

You know those times in life where you come face-to-face with disappointment, where you realize the way you thought something in life would go did not go that way at all, or you are finally able to name something you’ve always longed for deep in your soul and you realize you aren’t going to get that from the source you hoped would provide that for you, and then you… grieve?

Yeah. I’m experiencing one of those times. And it hurts. It hurts to first accept that I’ve experienced a loss, and second, to go through the grieving process – a process which though can feel quite isolating is ironically completely normal, healthy, and necessary.   

Yesterday when I was sitting in on morning devotion time at a women’s shelter I volunteer at occasionally, the topic happened to be all about this. They were reading from a book called Trusting God – and I wish I had had a paper and pen to write down the words that most touched me – but the thought was this: whenever we experience a loss we have an opportunity to allow it to fall into the fertile soil of God’s wisdom and trust He can and will grow something beautiful from it, in time.

Right now I don’t know what kind of beauty will be born from the current loss I'm experiencing – but I have seen God redeem other past losses in my life and trust this latest thing, too, will ultimately spring forth a new kind of hope, one which can never die.

Is there a particular loss you are experiencing right now? Don’t be afraid to grieve. God never leaves our side. He can handle our pain, and actually wants us to enter in to it with Him so we can experience His healing.

Will you pray with me, that we would allow God to grow something beautiful from the losses in our lives? 

He is endlessly creative, and one of His favorite things is to restore and make new. Right now our pain may overshadow such thoughts – but in time, we will have a song we would never have had the privilege of singing had we not first experienced a loss.

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"Behold, I am doing a new thing;
    now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?
I will make a way in the wilderness
     and rivers in the desert..."

- Isaiah 43:19

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