When It's Hard · Grief & Loss
Anniversary of a Loss
For when you feel: one year since, their birthday, hard date on the calendar
To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven: ... a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,
The MinuteSermon
You were doing better, and then the calendar turned. The date arrives and grief walks back in without knocking, and you wonder if you have gone backwards. You haven't. Scripture says there is "a time to mourn, and a time to dance," and times return the way seasons do. This is winter making its annual visit, not proof that spring was fake. Let the day be what it is. Weep if it is a weeping day. Do something they loved if that is what remembering asks of you. And notice that mourning and dancing live inside the same sanctified year. The God who kept you through the first grief is here for this echo of it, gently and patiently walking you toward the time to dance.
By the MinuteSermon editors
A prayer for this moment
Lord, You know what today is. Meet me in the remembering, honor what I lost, and keep walking me toward the time to dance. Amen.
Songs for this moment
“Graves Into Gardens” · Elevation Worship
what God grows from loss, in time
“Even So Come” · Chris Tomlin
grief turned toward the reunion
One small step
Do one thing today they loved (a meal, a song, a walk) as an act of remembrance.
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