I struggle with the gravity of the amount of loss I have experienced. Often tucking it away and somehow trying to convince myself that all of these losses didn’t happen to me. But I wrote an entire book filled with page after page of reliving these stories of grief. And yet, when I wade into the deep sadness of it all, I’m also filled with so much hope in it all. How can these two dichotomies exist? How is it possible to have hope in our grief? The simple answer for those who are in Christ is that he is our hope. It’s the tension we live in here on earth. Living day after day in grief AND hope.
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