The fog of brokenness is impossible to navigate by sight. Journeys such as facing loss are not to be attempted in your own power.

Being cast down resembles abandonment. “Where is your God?” It feels like you’ve been abandoned; and it looks to those watching like you’ve been abandoned.

The humble recognizes their own poverty of spirit. They stand in need. They seek forgiveness, healing, and grace from a holy God.

Psalm 40 provides five ingredients to walk by faith in any of life’s storms. In a fallen world, we face pain, loss, and tragedy. A walk of faith is most clearly seen when circumstances are most grim.

All of mankind stands as a mere breath; and yet, peace is made available as a gift, even in the most painful of journeys.

Loss resembles a crushing blow from an angry deity. Ants feel the weight of a human shoe. I get it. Arrows sink into flesh. A deep wound, indeed.

...you have to discipline yourself. You can’t flinch. Stay put and be patient. Trust that he will act. Do not fret. Above all, expect brokenness in a broken world.

As a humble mourner, turn to God and receive. God’s steadfast love is an amazing weapon in the fight against brokenness. I have found, in loss, that the steadfast love of the Lord goes deeper than my pain.

Bereft is defined as being deprived. Lacking something. It can mean you’ve been robbed, stripped, cut off from, devoid of, destitute of, bankrupt, left wanting, or deficient.

Sometimes you need to remind yourself he is close to you when you’re brokenhearted. The righteous may and will have trouble in this life. No doubt. But the temporal is short-lived.