Good Grief

We do not want you … to grieve like the rest of men, who have no hope. —1 Thessalonians 4:13

Grief often begins with a gasp, the stunned awakening that someone you love is gone. And in this world, people are always leaving.Why get attached in the first place? we wonder. Yet God has made the human heart so that—despite efforts to the contrary—we do attach. And then when people are taken from us, our heart is torn; part of its fabric

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