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"Then David and all the men with him took hold of their clothes and tore them. They mourned and wept and fasted till evening for Saul and his son Jonathan, and for the army of the Lord and the house of Israel because they had fallen by the sword." - 2 Samuel 1:11-12
In his book “Faith in the Shadows,” author Austin Fischer writes: “The first funeral I officiated was for an eighteen-year-old girl killed in a car accident. To this day, I’ve never experienced a more difficult funeral. And as I spoke and looked out into a sea of grief, one face stood out—that of her boyfriend. I met with him shortly after the funeral and learned that days before the accident, he had purchased an engagement ring and had been planning to propose.
Neither of us spoke much during that initial meeting; words felt treasonous. But in the discussions that followed, we gradually opened up to one another, and he asked me how to deal with all the anger and grief. He told me prayer had never come easily for him. He never knew how to talk to God, and at this particular moment, he had nothing nice to say. So I gave him a Bible, put a small bookmark in Job 1, and suggested this was a good place to start. We met a few weeks later, and when I asked him how the reading was going, he said, ‘I didn’t know we could talk to God like that. If I can talk to God like that, maybe I can talk to God.’”
Mourning is an inevitable loss on earth. Today, in prayer, thank Jesus that in Him, we have overcome death; one day, all mourning will come to an end, and we will see those who trust in Him again in Heaven.
"Death is nothing else but going home to God; the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity." - Mother Teresa
God's Word: "Godly men buried Stephen and mourned deeply for him." - Acts 8:2
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