How often when we lose a loved one we ask God to allow us to switch places with them? How often do we bury ourselves in restless sleep thinking our sleep will draw us nearer to our loved one? How often do we stop living when a loved one dies? Whatever it was that claimed your loved one you must tell yourself that life is worth living.
Life is worth living for the fatherless girl on your street who needs to see that your faith really is relevant and that there is a loving father in heaven who loves and died for her and your faith may be worth claiming when life without a father seems so painful.
Life is worth living for the teenager on your block struggling from the fresh wounds of watching his best friend killed in a car accident. The way you handle your sudden loss and watching your faith become like perfume might be the thing that helps him recover from his friends death and gives him a reason to keep living.
Life is worth living to the burned out business man who after the loss of his wife and catastrophic losses to his 401k account while asking himself, "is this it" and watching you transverse through your own grievous journey with 'the hope of Christ' just may be the thing that keeps him from drowning in alcohol and eventual death.
Life is worth living to the family who lost a child and hearing about your faith through this painful time just may be enough help them recover from their own pain and give them a new life purpose.
Life is worth living to the co-worker who is reeling from multiple catastrophic deaths, but no faith to see those events through just may be helped as he senses the 'unseen' things in your life which are helping you heal may prevent him from pulling the trigger to escape his own personal tyranny.
Life is worth living to your newly laid off neighbor feeling the effects of helplessness and purposelessness and it may be the conversations he has with you that helps him find new meaning for his life.
Life is worth living to the Somalia family down the street feeling the effects of post traumatic effects of their home land and it may be the conversations he has with your that convinces them that Jesus Christ is very real and worth claiming for their own lives.
In the aftermath of grief and loss there are so many 'what if' scenarios we can bring up, but regardless of what caused your loved one to die we must convince ourselves that for everyone we come in contact with from this day forth we must stand and be willing to tell them that it is possible to recover from grief pf any kind and because of how Jesus personally walked with you on your journey they too can find a reason to keep living
Life, is in deed worth living!
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