Comfort for the Day

– 11 – God is faithful to bring beauty of character from the ashes of our pain. K. Nicola Please keep in mind that healthy grieving allows for periods of relief, yet continues the conscious choice to face the pain and work it through. As you come to understand your seasons of grief, your ebbs and flow of the waves of emotions, or your particular way of climbing grief stairs, you may discover a pattern that works for you. You might be aware of a deeper sense of your true self. You might discover that you are being lead in your healing towards becoming the person God is recreating you to be. This Scripture helped me keep my grief work in perspective. “For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary but the things which are not seen are eternal.” 2 Corinthians 4:17–18 KJV While it might seem difficult at first to say that day-to-day living without our loved one is a “light affliction,” in the perspective of eternity ~ in the new Heaven and new Earth ~ this season of grief will be but a speck on our whole life story. Sometimes it helps to put our pain into eternal perspective. It encourages us to release the pain so we can embrace a renewed and healed heart.