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Good grief (1)
'A time to gain, and a time to lose.' Ecclesiastes 3:6
Grief is the word we use to describe how intense stuff gets when we lose somebody, a relationship finishes, or a major trauma happens. Feelings can run so deep that our whole world seems out of sync when we grieve.
Poet WH Auden, put it like this: 'The stars are not wanted now: put out everyone. Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun; Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood. For nothing now can ever come to good'. Perhaps, at times, we agree, and would love nothing more to tear down the sky and pull the plug on this earth. It's OK to feel like that when we've lost something precious; it's all part of grieving.
Nobody should expect you to 'get over it'; you need time to grieve properly and then find a way to take your sadness into the next part of your life.
The Bible doesn't hide away from loss. In Deuteronomy 34 we see a picture of a whole country dealing with their pain of Moses, Israel's spiritual father, being taken from them: 'So the sons of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days ...' (Deuteronomy 34:8 NAS). There's no putting on a brave face and pretending things are OK. The entire nation stops what it's doing to grieve. They literally pack up the moon and dismantle the sun. So should you; when the tears are running, God is healing.
written by Bob Gass
'A time to gain, and a time to lose.' Ecclesiastes 3:6
Grief is the word we use to describe how intense stuff gets when we lose somebody, a relationship finishes, or a major trauma happens. Feelings can run so deep that our whole world seems out of sync when we grieve.
Poet WH Auden, put it like this: 'The stars are not wanted now: put out everyone. Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun; Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood. For nothing now can ever come to good'. Perhaps, at times, we agree, and would love nothing more to tear down the sky and pull the plug on this earth. It's OK to feel like that when we've lost something precious; it's all part of grieving.
Nobody should expect you to 'get over it'; you need time to grieve properly and then find a way to take your sadness into the next part of your life.
The Bible doesn't hide away from loss. In Deuteronomy 34 we see a picture of a whole country dealing with their pain of Moses, Israel's spiritual father, being taken from them: 'So the sons of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days ...' (Deuteronomy 34:8 NAS). There's no putting on a brave face and pretending things are OK. The entire nation stops what it's doing to grieve. They literally pack up the moon and dismantle the sun. So should you; when the tears are running, God is healing.
written by Bob Gass
