In each of our lives, we will experience a storm. Not maybe. Not probably. But definitely. And not just one storm, but many. Big and small. Some of us are in the depths of the waters right now with the raging waves tossing us on every side and we can’t help but wonder when it will all be calm again. Some of us can tell a storm is forming ahead and we are praying for strength to endure it. And then there are some of us who are resting with grateful hearts because there is no storm in sight.

We will all find ourselves in different situations at different times in our lives. I was in a storm as we fought cancer in my youngest son, Bennett. Then we saw the sun break through the clouds for just a moment and it was calm…that was the day he went to heaven. Now I am in the storm again, but this time the storm of grief.

Do you know someone who is grieving? Grieving the loss of a child, a spouse, a parent, a close friend. Or maybe someone who is grieving the loss of a job, the failing of a marriage, or a miscarriage. Loss comes in many forms, but with every form of love comes a time of grieving. And often we have a heart to love someone through the storm of grieving, but just don’t know how.