One truth and a lot of tears

“Hope doesn’t make sense unless you’ve lived through the hard,” Ben Woods.  While not all grief hits the ‘red line’ of our lives, when it does, hope plays a central part of making sense of the sorrow. Heartache is always searching for hope, a reason to believe.  The hardest grief may be the loss of life. In that space we must draw upon a truth that is outside of our experience but right in the middle of our faith. Jesus “is the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in (him) will live, even though they die; and whoever lives believing in (him) will never die.”  Jesus meets us in our humanity and shares in our tears.