Loss hurts, but God redeems what’s taken. Grief creates space for grace, transforming sorrow into empathy and emptiness into beauty through His healing presence.
Grief has a way of sneaking up on you.
Sometimes it hits all at once, loud, messy, unbearable.
Other times it comes quietly, like a song you forgot you knew, playing faintly in the background of your day.
You can be standing in line at the grocery store or driving home from work, and suddenly something small, like a smell, a song, or a familiar phrase, brings them back.
The person you loved.
The season you lost.
The version of yourself that you can’t seem to find again.
And for a moment, you feel it all over again: the ache, the absence, the hollow space that no amount of distraction seems to fill.
I’ve learned that grief isn’t just about losing people.
Grief is also about losing pieces of your life that once felt permanent:
A friendship that faded.
A dream that died.
Faith that once felt unshakable.
But here’s what I’ve also learned: some losses come to make space.
God never wastes what He allows to be taken.
When we lose what we love, we’re forced to see what we’ve been leaning on.
And sometimes, what we leaned on wasn’t meant to hold us forever.
Psalm 34:18 says, “The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.”
That verse doesn’t promise a life without loss. It promises that even in the loss, we are not alone.
Because grief, as heavy as it feels, is proof that love existed. And real love always leaves something behind.
Maybe it’s compassion for others walking through the same darkness.
Maybe it’s a more profound gratitude for what remains.
Maybe it’s the quiet, sacred understanding that joy doesn’t erase sorrow, but it grows from it.
You may never get “over” the loss.
But with time, grace, and God’s gentle healing, you learn to carry it differently.
It doesn’t disappear, but you grow around it.
It becomes part of you, not as a wound, but as wisdom. Not as an emptiness, but as empathy.
If you’re in a season of grief, take heart.
God is not asking you to rush it or explain it.
He’s asking you to trust that He’s in it.
Even in the breaking, He is building something beautiful again.
