Your Road Home

When first thinking about this entry, and the topic of grief and subsequently God’s comfort,    so many thoughts and feelings came to mind. I’ve heard it said (and experienced) by many, that often feelings of grief can strongly be felt in the 2nd or 3rd year after the initial loss. It isn’t a “once and done” experience of going through some stage of the grief, and “moving on”, as if you won’t need to experience it again.  It is more of a circular (rather than linear) concept.

We all have hopes, dreams, expectations for ourselves or those we love. I think it is actually  healthy for our sense of well-being, to be hopeful and anticipating good things for the future. As Christians, we probably are (and should be) asking God to give us the ‘right’ plans and dreams, but even so there are and will be ‘set-backs’. They may only be a temporary delay or a ‘detour’; but sometimes they can be much more significant. How do we respond to these situations? In L