{"id":6395,"date":"2019-03-08T10:48:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T16:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedisciplemaker.org\/?p=6395"},"modified":"2019-03-08T10:48:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T16:48:44","slug":"surviving-the-first-year-after-losing-a-loved-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.navpress.com\/sites\/thedisciplemaker\/2019\/03\/surviving-the-first-year-after-losing-a-loved-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Surviving the First Year after Losing a Loved One"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nWhen my kids catch a glimpse of lightning bugs for the first time one summer, they assume they\u2019re battery powered. \u201cAre those little flashlights attached to anything?\u201d they ask.
\n\u201cThose aren\u2019t flashlights,\u201d I reply. \u201cThat\u2019s God\u2019s little magic trick. Wanna know something else?\u201d I continue. \u201cThose lightning bugs got me through one of the worst summers of my childhood.\u201d
\nThey\u2019re awestruck when I tell them about the summer I cut my foot open with glass. I show them the faded checkmark scar on the underside of my foot. \u201cI wasn\u2019t allowed to ride my bike or climb trees that summer. So I spent most evenings catching fireflies in mason jars.\u201d
\nThey grab jars from the kitchen and try it for themselves. I watch them and find myself feeling nostalgic for the invincibility of childhood. If we jump, our mom or dad will catch us. If we want to find magic, we need only look for a firefly.
\nThe first year after Cameron goes missing, it\u2019s my inner child\u2014the one who still believes in the magic of lightning bugs\u2014that hurts the most.<\/p>\n

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\nA few months after that firefly night, my family is playing a round of cards. We\u2019re trash-talking and laughing, when my phone interrupts our fun. My mother is on the other end, frantically explaining that Cameron was hiking in Oregon and that we all need to pray. She implores us to help call the Oregon Park Service. Three years later, the Crater Lake park ranger\u2019s number is still EXPO\u2019d on the whiteboard in my kitchen.
\nPutting together clues and tracks, the best guess we can come up with is that Cameron, my cousin and childhood friend, fell from a snow-covered cornice into the waters of Crater Lake\u2014a two-thousand-foot-deep body of water famous for its startling beauty.
\nWhere is the hope in a tragic, sudden death? Where is God\u2019s presence in freak accidents? How do you find God\u2019s love in a thing that feels so loveless? <\/a><\/span>Share on X<\/a><\/span>
\nThe night of Cam\u2019s funeral, his rugby buddies and our family release paper lanterns into the night. We stand there for a very long time, watching the lanterns float across the starry Nashville sky. Some lanterns unite and form the letter C, as if they are honoring Cameron with us. Even now, in the daylight, my aunt, Cameron\u2019s mom, notices clouds in the shape of the letter C. She can\u2019t help but wonder if it\u2019s her imagination or a supernatural gift of love. \u201cHugs from heaven,\u201d she calls them.
\nLike most of us do in grief, I want to make sense of nonsense. I want my questions answered so that I can write a good sermon on the topic. But there are no remains of Cameron and also oh-so-many remains: the gorgeous photo of Crater Lake he texted before his fall, all of our lingering questions, all of our memories and stories.
\nWhere is the hope in a tragic, sudden death like his? Where is God\u2019s presence in freak accidents? How do you find God\u2019s love in a thing that feels so loveless?
\nGod, can your love show up, even here?<\/p>\n

1. It\u2019s Okay to Just be Sad<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\nMy sister-in-law, who knows me well, texts me encouraging words every now and then. Usually along the lines of \u201cYou don\u2019t have to have all the answers, Aubrey. It\u2019s okay to just be sad.\u201d
\nIn other words, not all suffering is reasonable. Not all agonizing questions can be answered sensibly, especially in losses like these. In our deepest grief, we don\u2019t lament (cry out to God) to find answers. We lament to stop searching for them. We lament to be still in the unanswerable.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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2. Consider a Way to Honor Your Loved One<\/h2>\n
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\nBecause she is so uniquely impacted by Cameron\u2019s death, I know it\u2019s probably unfair of me to look to Cameron\u2019s mom to learn how to grieve\u2014especially in the first year following his death. Still, I find that she is helping me find God\u2019s love in this. She and my uncle have such huge hearts. In the year following their son\u2019s death, they start a scholarship in Cameron\u2019s name. They build a memorial bench at Crater Lake. They bless others. They scatter love everywhere they go.
\nWhen I ask her how she is processing things, sometimes she cries. Other times, she quotes Charles Spurgeon: \u201cGod is too good to be unkind and too wise to be mistaken. When we cannot trace his hand, we must trust his heart.\u201d
\nShe tells me that she is trying\u2014\u201cLord knows, I try.\u201d But she doesn\u2019t always understand. \u201cSome days are better than others. I keep praying for good days. I keep asking how, why, and why now, but those answers don\u2019t come.\u201d<\/p>\n

3. It\u2019s Okay to Yell and Scream at God \u2013 Really.<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\nThere are many evenings in the year following Cam\u2019s accident when I continue to ask God my questions and receive no answer. I yell and scream at God for doing this to our family. I tell him I don\u2019t believe in him anymore.
\nOf course, the irony is that the whole time, I\u2019m still talking to God. And he lets me.
\nAs David grieves his beloved Jonathan, he doesn\u2019t ask why. He simply declares this well-known lament,<\/p>\n

How the mighty have fallen. […] I grieve for you, Jonathan my brother; you were very dear to me.
\n–2 Samuel 1:25-26<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I am grieving for you, Cameron, my brother. You were very dear to me. Empty chairs sit at empty tables that once were full of you.<\/em><\/p>\n

4. Know that the First Year May Not be the Hardest<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\nIn spite of what people say, the first year of grieving a loved one is not always the hardest year. In fact, sometimes the years that follow are more difficult because reality sets in.
\nBut the first year is the year of adrenaline. The year of firsts. The year of putting one foot in front of the other. The year of doing the next thing you are capable of doing. The year of thinking through new systems and new structures in place to make your life livable. It\u2019s a year of reckoning\u2014a year of listing that which has been lost, and trying to make sense of what will never really make sense\u2014this new reality.<\/p>\n

5. God May Not Give You the Answers You Want \u2013 But He Will Give You Himself<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\nIt\u2019s now been four years since Cameron died and God never swept in like Superman to fix it, never traveled back in time to stop it from happening. God never truly answered my grief- questions the way I wanted him to.
\nBut sometimes, it\u2019s only in looking back that we see clearly. As I look back now, over that first year, even in this horrible circumstance, I can see God\u2019s hand of love touching everything.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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6. Look for God\u2019s Love in the Beautiful \u2013 and Painful \u2013 Moments<\/h2>\n
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\nGod\u2019s love is in the encouraging texts from my sister-in-law. God\u2019s love is in the kindness of the park ranger allowing a memorial bench to take up space on national park property. God\u2019s love is in the tearful phone calls with my aunt, in the photo Cam sent us before he died.
\nGod\u2019s love was even with Cameron as he died, doing what he most enjoyed. God\u2019s love is in the symbols, symbols that we were created to need\u2014the Cs in the sky, the floating lanterns, even in tattoos that our family got in Cam\u2019s honor, and a million more like them. God\u2019s love has shown up in all of these miniature miracles. Instead of answering our grief with explanations, God shows up in our pain.<\/p>\n

7. In God, Our Lament is Held in His Love<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\nSurely, this is a God in whom all lament songs become love songs.
\nThough death feels like the opposite of love, God showed us his own love in dying for us, in overcoming death for us. So are death and love opposites after all? In Jesus, perhaps not. In him, one can be the means to the other.
\nDear one, as you grieve this first year, may you continue to tell stories, light lanterns, honor your lost ones in the ways you see fit, and find childhood wonder and God\u2019s presence even in your darkest hour. He is near, showering you with love.<\/p>\n
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\"\"This article was originally posted by iBelieve<\/a> and was adapted from The Louder Song: Listening for Hope in the Midst of Lament<\/em>\u00a0by Aubrey Sampson<\/a>. Visit NavPress.com to engage further and read chapter one for free.<\/a>
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When my kids catch a glimpse of lightning bugs for the first time one summer, they assume they\u2019re battery powered. \u201cAre those little flashlights attached to anything?\u201d they ask. \u201cThose aren\u2019t flashlights,\u201d I reply. \u201cThat\u2019s God\u2019s little magic trick. Wanna … <\/p>\n

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