Talking Notes – Mourning

I’m a crier. I do it a lot. I’ve given up trying to stop. I just let it come, whenever and however the emotions arise. Instead of fighting it, I get curious. I ask myself why? What might be fueling these emotions? Maybe I can learn something from what my body is telling me. I have discovered that a lot of it for me is a simple, deep sadness, about the hardness of life. Loss, separation, death, betrayal, illness, hard hearts, and the many other hard things just make me sad. Whether the source of the hardness is someone else or me, it doesn’t matter. I still get sad. Jesus has something to say about this, and it isn’t what you might expect.

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