Grief & Loss
I lost someone I love and feel completely shattered. Where is God in this?
“The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.”
David wrote this psalm after a period of personal desperation and loss. The Hebrew word for 'brokenhearted' is vivid: it describes something smashed beyond use. The promise is not that God will fix the broken heart immediately but that he draws near to it. His response to our worst pain is presence, not distance.
“Jesus wept.”
Standing at the tomb of Lazarus, even knowing he was about to raise him, Jesus wept. He did not fast-forward through grief to the resurrection. This is one of the most important verses in the Bible for grieving people: the Son of God looked at death and cried. He does not stand outside your grief and explain it; he enters it with you.
A path forward
Give yourself explicit permission to grieve without a timeline. Grief has no schedule, and any voice telling you that you should be over it by now is a voice worth ignoring.
Find one tangible way to honor the person you lost this week: light a candle, write about a memory, visit a place they loved. Ritual and remembrance are not signs of being stuck; they are part of how we grieve.
Tell one person specifically how you are doing, not the general 'I'm okay.' Grief shrinks slightly every time it is spoken aloud to someone safe.
Closing verse
“And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.”
- Revelation 21:4
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