What Cannot Be Lost: How Jesus Holds Us Together When Life Is Falling Apart

by Melissa Zaldivar

when we read only the stories of winning, our faith only makes sense when we’re winning. Friends, the gospel is so much more than that.

We were made for fellowship, not followers.

And this is what grief does to us—it pulls us away from ourselves, and we no longer feel like we know who we are or what we’re supposed to be doing.

Your body needs to pause from sadness sometimes, and that’s not a reflection of how little you are committed to lamenting and honoring your loved one.

sometimes, the Lord provides by giving us the gift of one another.

Grief is blinding and deafening and paralyzing, all at once and yet, we have to keep stepping forward, which feels very unfair.

We don’t just lose our loved one when they die; we lose part of ourselves.

In the early days of grief, we’re in a fog and we need friends who will not just walk with us or lift our arms, but will carry us at times.

We have to learn to live with our grief. We adjust things and make room for it.