Loss

life is a series of events- good, bad, and indifferent. I have recently experienced the bad in the loss of a friend. Crystal and i graduated from high school together and coming from a small school that means we knew each other well growing up. The news was a huge shock. A car accident. An event that happens in life. I went home for the funeral and grieved with my friends. It was hard and as we all do when faced with difficult times in life we ask God - WHY?

But we can't find the answer. Sometimes it seems to come to us later in life, sometimes not. It's hard to imagine a good reason for a person to die. The old question, why do bad things happen to good people?? There is never really an answer, or an answer we can understand. We can not even try to understand the mind of God, the reasonings that he has. But we always try. We always search, and sometimes that search almost destroys us.

We all have a emptiness inside of us, a whole that we need filled. We spend much of out lives searching for what's missing and loss adds to the hurt and pain of emptiness. However there is only one thing that will fill our emptiness and it's God. He also tends to be the one we blame our pain upon. This does not make us very open to him.

Faith in God's grace and love gives us hope for a better world. We trust in his promises that he is good and his plan is not to harm us but for us to prosper and give us hope and a future. As hard as it is to accept the pain caused by loss God offers us comfort and love instead of a world of sorrow and bitterness. We many not be able to understand his plan now, but through our faith we trust that he is the way and the life.

Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

God Bless,
your sister in Christ~Erin