Grief
This past week has been one of the most emotionally draining weeks I have ever had to go through. My heart has simply broken. I am learning that grief comes in many ways for many reasons. From sobbing hysterically in a friend's office, to withdrawing from conversations, to trying to fix it all and not being able to at all. I keep getting pulled to the verse in John when Jesus was at his friend's grave, "Jesus wept". I've spoken about this verse before, but there is a strange comfort in all of my leaking this week, that my Savior has been there. He knows. Grief for a precious soul gone home, grief for a situation I wish I could have stopped, but can't do anything about, grief for wanting to be in a different place than I am. Grief for not being able to help. Grief is not an emotion reserved for death. I've learned this week. As things have been spiraling all around me, I want to change it all, but I can't. I am working on accepting the outc