Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
2 Corinthians 1:3-4 NASB
Emotional pain is, unfortunately, part of the package for everyone suffering the loss of someone they loved. Yes, it is messy, like multiple cans of different colors of paint spilled. Until we lose a special somebody, those emotions remain as foreign as the country across the ocean. Like the choppy seas, we must lean into our emotions, one emotion at a time, until the waves of the ocean begin leveling out.
Oh, it's going to hurt and you're going to be tempted to stuff those emotions into a corked bottle and find something else to occupy your time Unfortunately when we do that our grief simply waits and it waits and it waits- and our grief gets more complicated as future losses enter our lives. But the good news is that we have a living Savior that is willing to walk with us on our journey, and at times carry us through the rough patches of our lives.
Some simple advice you may want to consider during this sad an isolating time of your grief would be to journal the emotions of your loss. Journaling will help you to get those messy emotions out of your mind onto paper where you can process them. Journaling opens the door to pray to God to help you process those emotions as they come up. One other piece of advice would be to consider joining a grief share group where you will get the support from others experiencing loss.www.griefshare.org
One day you will awake refreshed and renewed with a new sense of vitality to your life. You will begin to see the door slowing creaking open allowing you to see how God will use the once messy emotions of your life to help others entering their own sad journey.
God truly has a plan to help you recover from your pain.
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