Blessed are those that mourn
“Blessed are they that mourn” Matthew
5:4 #lighttheworld
I remember the morning of Emmett’s
viewing sobbing in my mother’s arms. I said, “I can’t do this mom. I can’t have
another person walk in here and hug me—I can’t keep pretending I have anything
left to give—I can’t even stand it when they touch me. Today I just want to be
left alone.”
My wise mother held me close and
said, “Ashlee . . . then don’t do it for you—do it for them. Hug them—not
because you want to— but because they came to mourn. They lost something too—a
brother, a son, a friend. Every person who knew him will never be the same. So
let them in. Sometimes it will be for you—but most of the time you will have to
do it for them. Comfort them.”
A few things I have learned—since
that day— about grief, loss, and mourning.
1. It is an individual journey . . . but nearly
impossible to do alone.
2. Others might
have lost similar to you, but they might handle it differently.
3. No one prepares
you for how hard it is going to be
and that it doesn’t truly ever end.
4. It is a road
that never leads you back to who you
once were . . . but a path that takes you to a new place—of who you can become.
5. Faith doesn’t take away the pain—it just
helps you remember you are not doing it
alone.
6. God will
give you more than you can handle—but He will also give you a Savior . . . who will carry you through
the days you cannot stand on your own.
Grief is impossible to put into
words, and I have failed many times to describe the pain that one experiences
in the midst of great loss. But one thing I do know something
about—is that we can mourn with those who mourn...because we all need each
other. Through the good times and the bad. You are never ever alone.
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