Saturday, October 10, 2020

Praying for those who grieve on Saturdays

 

Ann Voscamp says, “You can be too broken to be.” She also talks about grief here:

 “There is no fear in letting tears come. Sadness is a gift to avoid the nothingness of numbness, and all hard places need water. Grief is a gift, and after a rain of tears, there is always more of you than before. Rain always brings growth.”

It’s Saturday and the day we focus on those families who’ve lost loved ones, maybe recently, maybe it’s been a while but grief has its own timetable. We pray for strength for the journey, comfort from the Lord and His people and for love to surround you through the numbness of coping with what must be dealt with. Jesus, lover of my soul, bind our wounds and make us whole.

Show us how to live, one day at a time, giving You glory. Your love never fails, though sometime our faith does.

  

Augustine said it stunningly: "In my deepest wound, I see Your glory and it dazzles me."

 

Sudden death may be harder to understand than when there has been a long illness, especially when we feel our loved one has turned the corner and is on a good path. We had hope that this was the time of recovery but then have to lean not to our own understanding. At the point of thinking only that our Lord knew the future and perhaps spared them from something worse. Lord, comfort the family left behind as only You can. Thinking of a special sister/mom today.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDZMgFax5vA

 

No comments:

Post a Comment