When Life Breaks

Today is Easter...the day Jesus rose from the dead. Wow! Imagine living in that time, and finding out that He wasn't in the tomb...would you believe that He was alive OR would you be skeptical & think someone was trying to trick the world???

Pastor Wes gave the first sermon in a series entitled "When Life Breaks". It was an awesome sermon about what happens when tragedy strikes our life thru death....the death of a friend, a child, a parent, anyone that dies & we don't understand why. What do we do??? Do we sink into a deep depression or do we TRUST God???? Awesome sermon! So glad we went to church today, and I'm really looking forward to this series.

It reminds me of the song that Natalie Grant has out--"Held". Here are the lyrics:

Two months is too little
They let him go
They had no sudden healing
To think that providence
Would take a child from his mother
While she prays, is appalling
Who told us we’d be rescued
What has changed and
Why should we be saved from nightmares
Were asking why this happens to us
Who have died to live, it’s unfair

This is what it means to be held
How it feels, when the sacred is torn from your life
And you survive
This is what it is to be loved and to know
That the promise was when everything fell
We’d be held

This hand is bitterness
We want to taste it and
Let the hatred numb our sorrows
The wise hand opens slowly
To lilies of the valley and tomorrow

This is what it means to be held
How it feels, when the sacred is torn from your life
And you survive
This is what it is to be loved and to know
That the promise was that when everything fell
We’d be held

If hope is born of suffering
If this is only the beginning
Can we not wait, for one hour
Watching for our Savior

This is what it means to be held
How it feels, when the sacred is torn from your life
And you survive
This is what it is to be loved and to know
That the promise was that when everything fell
We’d be held

So, fortunately, I have not had to experience first hand the loss of a child or spouse or parent....would I succumb to grief & bitterness if I did??? I want to say no, but my heart would be ripped to shreds. How DO you recover from such a disastrous event??? I love this song, and want to cry everytime I hear it....Natalie has such a beautiful, slightly raspy voice, and sings this song like she's experienced grief. I do feel grief over the loss of my grandparents...in fact, I still think of them & long to hug them & talk to them--almost every day. I can't imagine how much worse losing a child must be. I hope I NEVER find out! My heart is screaming....."NO, Lord! Please, not my children or husband!!!"