Prayer about grief and loss
“Weep not”
According to the Gospel of Luke, on at least two occasions Christ Jesus tenderly said to those who were grieving, “Weep not.” First, to a mother who had lost her only son, then later to a ruler of...
When I lost someone I loved
I felt God right there with me, and I knew that the love I’d felt from my Sunday School teacher would always be with me, too.
When a loved one passes on
My wife and I are both embraced in the Christly love of God’s ever-presence, and we are each moving forward spiritually.
No grief, just Love
In the year since my mum passed, I have never once cried, and although I often think of her and love her, I don’t have any sense of loss for her or for me.
A piano lesson in the key of Life
I learned to play the piano on my mother’s Steinway in the living room. It was a big, beautiful piano with a grand and resonant sound, and she cherished it. Because we both deeply loved music,...
‘In awe of God’s care’
“Thy Maker is thine husband” (Isaiah 54:5)—what in the world does that mean? My beloved husband of almost thirty years had just passed on, and somehow that Bible verse was supposed to be a comforti...
Changing the climate of death
Flags seem to fly at half staff more often than ever in my city, marking the passing of revered persons. They remind me that every day multimillions are mourning the loss of someone. Death is a con...
What cannot be lost
The title of a critically praised movie from a couple of years ago, All Is Lost, might seem a fitting summary of human experience at times. What a reliable theme loss is—for screenwriters and poets...
Christ my refuge
O'er waiting harpstrings of the mind There sweeps a strain, Low, sad, and sweet, whose measures bind The power of pain, And wake a white-winged angel throng...
A MOTHER'S PRAYER
Days before my children and young grandchildren were to move to the United States, I began to feel enormous anxiety. I remember meeting a friend on the street, who told me how her two children were...