What Can I Say?

• • Someone I really liked to visit with, and who I have known since I was young and who had strong connections to my childhood passed away on the 31st. I just found out...I don't know how to respond. Please pray for his family...his wife has cancer too...I would visit them every summer. They live in my childhood home. Such wonderful people. 
    
    I just don't get it. How can I even account for all the pain in my heart? Except that Jesus cares, He understands, and His Love is far greater...
    
    That He goes to those deep places with me. That He isn't finished yet. That He will come again in Glory. That He loves us...even to death, death on a cross.
    
    And that He has conquered the grave, and one day He will wipe every tear from our eyes.
    
    He is so Mighty, Victorious, Glorious, Majestic...
    
    and yet so personal...so tender...so kind...
    
    My heart is pierced...and the brokenness of this world is so heavy. But the Lord is STRONG and He bears it all. He bore it all...
    
    There is something so beautifully profound about suffering and sorrow...that He went to those depths, that He pulled us out of those depths...
    
    So that what was broken may be made whole in Him. What was lost may be found. What was weak may be made strong.
    
    He is unsearchable. Glorious. Beautiful. Mighty.
    
    He consumes it all.
    
    IT IS NOT ENOUGH for us … within the arena of the world's pain merely to know of a God who sympathizes. It is not even enough to know of a God who heals. We need to know of and be connected with a God who experiences with us, for us, each grief, each wound. We need to be bonded with a God who has had nails in the hands and a spear in the heart!
    Flora Slosson Wuellner, Weavings
    
    
    
    
    
    I want to know Him more.