Grief is a Funny Thing...

Well, maybe not funny, but it certainly makes you do weird things. The rollercoaster of emotion is really draining and the fickleness and feebleness of my demeanor has been exposed. I thought I was pretty stable, but I'm really not. I can see a little better how people feel who have chronic depression. It reminds me of the greatness of our God and the words of the the hymn "On Christ the Solid Rock" I dare not trust the sweetest frame [of mind] but wholly lean on Jesus name... and when all around my soul gives way, He then is all my hope and stay. These words mean much more to me now.

It's funny how biblical concepts that you had a theoretical knowledge of become real when you experience them.

"Sorrowful, yet always rejoicing" II Cor 6:10
"Bear one another's burdens" Gal 6:2

I had an idea of what they might look like, but I had never (really) experienced these concepts as I have in the last two weeks. It's good to have these categories in your mind so that when you experience them, you can say "Ah, now I understand what that means!" But don't expect to truly understand them until you experience them, and even then, in experiencing these things we "see as in a mirror dimly" and I look forward to when we will see "face to face" I Corinthian 13:12.