Today’s Five minute Friday word provided for us by Miss Kate is grief. It’s a hard word as it’s something that is so individualistic and doesn’t always play out the way we expect it to. Today I ponder anew grief held.

Grief Held
I expected
After so many years
Of watching
of praying.
That this friend
Her grief over the loss
of a loved parent.
Would ease.
But often it seems that
the grief
Is as fresh today,
as it was yesterday.
I ponder that,
it makes me
Fret a bit.
Because this friend.
She and her mom
Love/Loved God dearly.
Doesn’t she know
Her momma is safe?
Doesn’t she know
God’s promises are true
TODAY you will be
with me in Paradise.
Not tomorrow
Not far off in the future
When God calls us home
We come home.
So where does this
Long-term, unsettled
Grief come from?
Why does it set so?
I do not understand it.
I loved my Dad.
He did his best as a dad.
But he has passed.
I know that his
grief and pain
are all behind him now.
My grief is passed.
For me the grief
Was intense but short.
God’s promises
Hold true … always.
Is it part of our
Sin-nature to hold on?
To not truly trust
God’s promises?
Or is it a
basic selfishness that
Causes us to hold on.
An anger at God
For taking away
one we loved
so much?
That holds grief in?
I don’t know
but today
I ponder anew
of grief forever held.

Scriptural Inspirations
Luke 23:43
And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.”
Romans 8:18
I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.
Matthew 11:28-30
28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
And a song that might ease a hurting heart.