But what if, instead of fearing what might be taken from us, we decided that everything lost makes us more complete, not less? Not by the world’s economy. In this world, loss makes us grieve as it should. But this isn’t the whole story. At the very same time we grieve a loss, we gain more and more awareness of an eternal perspective. Grieving is such a deep work and a long process, it feels like we might not survive it. But eventually we do. And even though we still may never agree on this side of eternity that the trade the good God gave us is worth what we’ve lost, we hold on to hope by
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