Good Enough
The Burden of Love
MONDAY, APRIL 4
Good Enough, 167-172 Psalm 86:1-7
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear,” said theologian C.S. Lewis.
Fill in the blank using your own words:
No one ever told me that grief felt so like .
We don’t always have the capacity to invite our losses in, to give them space to resonate in our thoughts and feelings. It’s costly. In such cases, simply name them and put them outside the door of your heart while you rest. You can invite them in and entertain them later. Be gentle with yourself. Grief is the experience of a loss carved out by love, and the greater the love the deeper the grief. If now is the right time, let your heart speak of what you have loved and lost.
“Jesus wept” (John 11:33-35, Luke 19:41). God in human form cries with us, for us. But Jesus didn’t just say I feel your pain, He walked right toward it, to a cross of humiliation and apparent defeat. Little did we know He was shouldering death itself, bearing it away through the Easter mysteries that lie ahead on this Lenten path. He knows. Let God come into your pain with the infinite compassion that can reach and touch the depths of it. How does knowing that Jesus too experienced deep grief feel to you?
God, breathe Your compassion upon me, even now. You, Who have walked this path of darkness and death. Turn Your face to me, right where I am, and gather me up into Your arms of love. That I might rest awhile.
Amen.
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Thanks for this. I have always really been dependent on sermons specially those dealing with grief and loss. I lost my wife to cancer last year and the words and preaching Keion Henderson, https://www.keionhenderson.com/sermons-on-grief were what I really clung on to during those days that I can't even get up to face the morning.