Today, I stumbled upon this post from years ago–one of my very first attempts at blogging–but it is a good reminder from my younger self of lessons I’ve gleaned along life’s away. I found it particularly relevant to this year 2020 with all the losses we’ve shared. I hope you find encouragement.
Loss comes in different strains, but it is a common malady to all people. Every change brings some element of loss—a loss of what was—what can never be. It brings grief. A common response to loss is to question why it happened. If God is powerful and good, why did he not stop the course of events which led to the loss?
Right now I am walking through my own grieving process as I recover and move forward from the loss of a close relationship. I have had an assortment of thoughts and feelings that osculate from sorrow to pain to wonder to despair to denial to hope to frustration to questions to peace and joy to sorrow again. Through my life I have endured enough other types of loss to know one thing to be very true and very important—turning away from God in bitterness and resentment for allowing…
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