The worst of losses

I worked in the house of a Vietnam vet.  Hanging pictures in their new house.  Later that night I watched a show about a family who lost a son in Vietnam. 

I can’t imagine.  And I think about my worst heart aches.  Failed church appointments, broken relationships. Disappointing people. 

None of them compare to losing a child.  If you’re out there and you’re reading this and you’ve lost a child I want you to know that my heart goes out to you.  I hug you from a far.  You’ve experienced as far as I’m concerned one of the worst griefs life has to offer.  I love you and I’m so sorry.

I encourage you to keep looking for the joy.  God is bigger than we can ever imagine.  And, he lost a child once too.