Life in the New Neighbourhood

In this new neighbourhood, we become reconciled to grief. We accept the reality of our loss. We not only understand it mentally, but we also accept it emotionally and spiritually. It is a deep inner acknowledgement that pain and grief are difficult yet necessary parts of life. 

If you had not loved, you would not be experiencing the pain of grief. Whatever the loss, the love for what you lost is still there. But you are still here. As long as you love, you will feel pain. But now you will grow in your understanding that you have an unknown number of precious days left on this earth to honour that love.  You have time to find ways to love others—and yourself—even better than you did in the past.

It is time to comfort others just as you have been comforted.
“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 tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble” (2 Corinthians 1:3, 4).

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