A rose bud opens in the storm and a new kind of beauty emerges.
Battered but resilient.
You didn’t think you’d grow from grief. Such fierce loss demands a great deal: so many details, so many responsibilities. Bank accounts. Relationships. Decisions.
And always the gaping crater of loss.
But compassion and kindness can bloom in a tempest. The slashing pain of grief can harden a heart or soften it.
Something of value has been released in you through this battle. I brought you understanding and unveiled deep love. So that you are able to give what I have given to you.
Stand tall, my love, and let your new life unfurl.
We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair. We are hunted down, but never abandoned by God. We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed.
2 Corinthians 4:8–9
Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. All rights reserved.
