March 26, 2017: Bearing This Together – Amanda Pennington

Grief. It is something we often do not want to engage because it is result of pain. So we deny, push away and reject the idea out of hand. We do all we can to focus on something else, anything else so we do not have to hold the pain and therefore walk through grief. However, what we learn in Christ is of a God who was “acquainted with grief” (NASB). We can be those who then dive headlong into our grief and pain, rather than run from it. For it is in that pain that we somehow find the God who has been there the whole time.