One of my students asked me what to do about grief. I think my answer surprised him.
"First, grieve. Tears are a gift God has given us to let our sorrows flow from our hearts into the world. He weeps with us. Then, embrace your sorrow. A broken-heart--brokenness--is the greatest gift God has given me. When I embrace it as His gift to me, the embracing allows me--transforms me---into His likeness: "A man of sorrows." In a hurting, sin-stained, sorrowing world, He was the most compassionate, caring, encouraging, accepting, forgiving--loving--man that ever walked this earth. To be just a little more sensitive to those around me, I must embrace my sorrow. I must pray for Him to give me a heart sensitive to those around me who are hurting--so sensitive that they can never pass me by without my reaching out to them as He permits. He humbled me and broke my self-centeredness thirty years ago. I pray He never heals my brokenness. May His heart of sorrow for a broken world and broken people be my heart day-by-day. "Oh, to be like Thee, blessed Redeemer."
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