Learning to live after loss blog
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What I did to stay out of the pit? Part 2
When I chose to be thankful, I opened my heart to let light in. The light exposed the broken pieces, which was painful, but necessary. Then the bands of thankfulness wrapped my broken heart and held it together until the pieces had time to mend and grow stronger.
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What I did to stay out of the pit. Part 1
The pit is the place grief takes me where I feel the most despair. God seems very far from me. There is an overwhelming and paralyzing sense that I am being overcome, that God is allowing me to be sifted by satan. When this would happen, there were some things…
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An Unwelcome Realization
How could I survive this great loss? And not just survive but have times of laughter and happiness. If grief is the price of love, how am I able to get out of bed? Does this mean I do not love my son?
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Let’s talk about that grief weight
God was doing a work in my heart to open my eyes to anything I was craving more than Him. Because nothing else could satisfy like Jesus.
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When Suffering Is Not Wasted
The same power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead is at work in us in the form of the Holy Spirit testifying the Truth to our spirit that this pain, this suffering, is not wasted.
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Is God Enough?
Being content is being satisfied, finding what you have sufficient. I certainly did not find what I had sufficient. I found it woefully lacking. Is God really asking me to be content when a part of my heart is no longer here with me?
