Good grief?

Helen Thorne-Allenson  |  Features  |  pastoral care
Date posted:  1 Aug 2016
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Good grief?

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Grief – it’s a pain that few escape.

Whether it’s the loss of a parent, child, spouse, friend or job, at some stage we will know its grasp.

It comes in many forms – it can appear as shock (‘I can’t believe they’ve gone’), manifest as anger (‘this just isn’t fair’), dwell deeply in despair (‘how can I go on?’), tainted by guilt (‘I should have done more’) – each moment soaked through in tears. It hurts because we know it isn’t supposed to be this way. It is only the presence of sin that makes such loss inevitable this side of Jesus’s return (Genesis 3).

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