Moving through grief is a privilege because grief is born of love. And love never dies.
We’ll experience grief in this life. There’s no getting around it. Death and loss are part of it.
Moving through grief is one of the hardest things we’re called to do. Grief changes us, but it also strengthens us if we allow it to do so. It strengthens our faith and increases our gratitude. For if we did not love, we would not grieve. So that if given the chance to love all over again, even knowing the loss would come, we’d still choose to love — XO, JN Fenwick.
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away, Revelation 21:4.
The Lord is near to the brokenhearted, Psalm | 34:18. Words by JN Fenwick, ©2025. All rights reserved. Images from Adobe Stock with a license for use.
“Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things,” 1 Corinthians 13:7.
GRIEF CHANGES US
Grief changes us,
like few things ever will.
It leaves a heaviness,
we’ll carry the rest of our lives.
An absence time can’t erase.
An empty space no one else can fill.
We’ll move on,
but we’ll never be the same.
How could we be?
We grieve because we love.
And love stays with us,
through the loss.
And so we carry it.
Not because we have to,
but because we choose to.
For them.
For all they were.
And for who we were because of them.
Because that’s what love demands.
That we hold on through the pain.
Trusting in the promise.
Believing with everything we are,
that love doesn’t end with goodbye.
JN Fenwick (© 2025) | mothjournal14
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