A Grief Sanctified: Through Sorrow to Eternal Hope

The below are excerpts from the chapter "The Grieving Process" in  J. I. Packer's A Grief Sanctified: Through Sorrow to Eternal Hope - Including Richard Baxter's Timeless Memoir of His Wife's Life and Death (Crossway, 2002)   What does it mean to grieve properly when one has lost a daughter, a son, a close companion, or the...

Links to songs that minister to me in my grief

Be Still My Soul -  by Katharina Amalia Dorothea von Schlegel, sung by the traditional acapella boy's choir, Libera Before You Call - by Daphne Rademaker (Vineyard), based on Isaiah 65:24 Dear Refuge of My Weary Soul - Words by Anne Steele, Music by Kevin Twit, performed by Indelible Grace Faith to Believe - by Shane and Shane He Will Hold...

The Pain of Searing Loss

In losing my father, I have come even more to appreciate Christ’s life and sacrifice on the cross. He was in perfect communion with his Father in heaven, yet humbled himself to come down to earth, taking the form of a servant to the point of death on a cross (Phil 2:7-8, see also John...

Grieving loved ones who are possibly unsaved

How Do You Deal with the Death of an Unsaved Loved One?  - John Piper answers Genesis 18:25 "Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?" "And right now," I confessed, "right now the right thing feels very painful to us. Horribly painful. Maybe immobilizingly, paralyzingly painful with grief. We need to move to...

Ministry of the Word – Scripture that ministers to me in my grief

God is so amazing that He uses an ancient text to speak to us today.  2 Timothy 3:16 and 17 tell us that "All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good...

Christian quotes on Grief and Sorrow

What the Lord expects from us at such seasons is not to abandon ourselves to unreasoning sorrow, but trustingly to look sorrow in the face, to scan its features, to search for the help and hope, which, as surely as God is our Father, must be there. In such trials there can be no comfort...

Links to Christian blogs on grief

Grieving and Lament A Grief Sanctified: Through Sorrow to Eternal Hope Glorifying God in Unshakable Grief - John Piper's encouragement in grief. "There are nutrients that we draw out of seasons of suffering that are strengthening to the bones of our faith and sweetening to the marrow of our faith like we can’t get any other...

Gardens, Grief, and Hope

For the 6-month anniversary of my father’s death, I went to visit my mom. She still lives in the home I grew up in with her, my father, and my brother. It is located in the desert: in the summer, the temperatures rise up to 110° F, and in the winters, it gets below freezing....

Psalm of Lament

A Psalm of Lament