THOUGHTS ABOUT – AND - HOPE IN GRIEF

Missing someone is sadness wrapped in the blessing of having known them. - source unknown

"The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit." Psalm 34:18

What we once have enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. - Helen Keller

“For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:38-39

You can't know the depth of the grace and love of God until you go through something that breaks you.  - C.S. Lewis

Jesus' words are true: “Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.” Matthew 5:4

If there is something we need more than anything else during grief, it is a friend who stands with us, who doesn't leave us. Jesus is that friend. - Billy Graham

The glory of the Christian life is that we have a hope that overwhelms grief. It doesn't eradicate it. It sweetens it. It overwhelms it. - Tim Keller

 “Though He brings grief, He will show compassion, so great is His unfailing love.” Lamentations 3:32

Grief never ends but it changes. It’s a passage, not a place to stay. It is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith. It is the price of love. - source unknown

“I will turn their mourning into laughter and their sadness into joy; I will comfort them.” Jeremiah 31:13

This grief, this sorrow, this total loss that empties my hands and breaks my heart, I may, if I will, accept; and by accepting it, I find in my hands something to offer. And so I give it back to Him, who in mysterious exchange gives Himself to me. - Elisabeth Elliott

"He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away." Revelation 21:4