Dear E,
This year I didn’t send you a sympathy card for the five year sadiversary of your husband’s death. I know you are all too aware of this date and your searing loss, but this is what I pray for you today.
Remember where you started five years ago today and what God did for you at that moment. Think back to that horrific day, when you saw T’s lifeless body and had to say goodbye. Ask yourself, where was God in the middle of that trauma? May God remind you of how He held you up. And that He gave you strength to absorb the truth and tell your four precious children. As you have learned, the mental journey backward is painful, but a necessary part of grief processing.
I love the LORD, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live. The cords of death entangled me, the anguish of the grave came over me; I was overcome by distress and sorrow. Then I called on the name of the … [Read More...]
