God is the giver and taker of life. We will never fully understand his ways and why some lives are cut short. Yet, he is still a good God and deserves our praise.
Prayer is a way to offer our thoughts and feelings to the Lord. We can lament our loss. We can ask God the hard questions, confident that he will not leave or forsake us. He is our safe place through life’s storms.
Psalm 147:3 states, “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.”
God is our great healer. He mends our broken hearts, and his helping spirit gives us the strength to walk through the valley. Lean into him as you process your grief and the uncertainty that the future brings.
John 14:26 states, “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and remind you of all that I said to you.“
We may not understand the losses we bear, and we often must lament the brokenness we see in the world, but the good news is we don’t have to handle these mysteries on our own. Lean into God’s helping spirit as a couple. Ask him for guidance, reassurance, strength, peace, and understanding. He is a great teacher, and he uses our life stories to show us more about who God is, even the tough things.
After our pregnancy loss, I realized first that the kids we did have were such miracles! Life is so very fragile, and as a Mom, I have no power to sustain the lives of my kids. Only God places breath in their lungs and thoughts in their minds and grows them into the people he created them to be. Our loss brought a sense of humility in that I have so much less control over things than I’d like to imagine, and with this realization comes an invitation. We are invited to trust God even in the loss. To see that he is the only one who gives life and knows what a day will bring. Trusting God and going to him in prayer is not always easy, but it’s the safest place we can be in a very unsafe world.
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