“Grief doesn’t want to be solved. It wants to be held. Sat with. Witnessed. It shows up like a tide, sometimes soft, sometimes devastating…What you’re carrying is sacred. It’s the shape of love after loss.” – Tierra Stockham
Do you thump watermelons? Do you try to pick the best life – I mean fruit? Is there a path, plan, or a person who you believed in and then you wanted to thump the results? Grief may come and go as does that expired peach that looked delicious on the outside but disappointed. You know what I am talking about – loss. People make a wide birth around you if you talk like this and it is hard to be a life insurance agent because we don’t want to discuss the inevitable. We have gain and loss. Dealing with the facts is better than thinking that because you follow Jesus you will be a star with a star quality life. The first clue is that Jesus suffered to secure our futures. If the Son of God suffered then we are like Him, made in the image of God. We will process grief and loss until Heaven. Take a few days off and then get back to the business of life after a hit. That path, plan or person was not on the trajectory God has designed for you. It will be OK.
Today I hung a painting I made in Prague almost a year ago. I had been downsizing and took down too many pictures. Hanging that painting was accepting the here and now. I’m trusting God for another route. I’m jumping off the hampster wheel and slowing down. I hope to dodge future cannons and I surrender my expectations.
