For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven.
A time to cry and a time to laugh. A time to grieve and a time to dance.
~ Ecclesiastes 3:1, 4
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
~ Matthew 5:4
Be happy with those who are happy, and weep with those who weep.
~ Romans 12:15
A time to cry and a time to laugh. A time to grieve and a time to dance.
~ Ecclesiastes 3:1, 4
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
~ Matthew 5:4
Be happy with those who are happy, and weep with those who weep.
~ Romans 12:15
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the old heaven and the old earth had disappeared.
I heard a loud shout from the throne, saying, “Look, God’s home is now among his people! He will live with them, and they will be his people. God himself will be with them. He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever.”
~ Revelation 21:1, 3-4
I heard a loud shout from the throne, saying, “Look, God’s home is now among his people! He will live with them, and they will be his people. God himself will be with them. He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever.”
~ Revelation 21:1, 3-4
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As I was gathering passages of Scripture to guide my heart and steps, I stumbled upon an obscure passage in Amos which was affirming and gut-wrenching all at once. The prophet is telling of a coming day when all the joy in the lives of the Israelites will be replaced with great sorrow, and he uses the death of an only son as an example of how bitter their grief will be (Amos 8:9-10).
Sometimes it feels like our grief is bigger than me, bigger than I can handle, bigger than I can work through. And in the mind of the prophet Amos and the people he spoke to, losing a son is about as worst as it can get. Like a brief burst of sunlight through an overcast sky, some days you can find solace in the unlikeliest places.
Thank you for your prayers.
- Andrew & Marie
3 comments:
You and Maria are often in my thoughts these days...sometimes at the most random of moments and I know it God reminding me to pray. I know I am by no means the only one God is doing this with. You are both being held up before God's throne by a Multitude of prayers. We love you guys.
Still remembering and praying for you two.
Karen, Brad, Lauren, Dana
hi drew and marie...
I've been thinking about you two a lot these past couple of days. I don't really know what the right thing to say is, but even though I never met Josiah I wanted to let you know that I share in your sorrow. I'm sitting in the library at school trying to hold back tears...
Hosea 6
1 "Come, let us return to the LORD.
He has torn us to pieces
but he will heal us;
he has injured us
but he will bind up our wounds.
2 After two days he will revive us;
on the third day he will restore us,
that we may live in his presence.
3 Let us acknowledge the LORD;
let us press on to acknowledge him.
As surely as the sun rises,
he will appear;
he will come to us like the winter rains,
like the spring rains that water the earth."
I pray for spring rains in your life that remind you of God's sweetest, providence, grace, and mercy in your lives.
mandi
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