Spring Is Coming
The day Sherrie died I walked out onto our deck and I asked God to carry me through my grief and to help me grieve in a healthy, healing way. Looking back over the past 7 months I see many ways that God has been carrying me through my grief. One way God has carried me is through the many remarkable people he has brought into my life to help me. One of those who God brought into my life gave me a CD by Steven Curtis Chapman titled Beauty Will Rise. The CD contains songs he wrote after the death of his daughter. On the CD he sings a song called Spring Is Coming. It is a song about the resurrection to the new life. I also relate the song to my resurrection back into life from my grief. So where am I after 7 months of my grief journey? I am like the picture of the tree attached to this post. Like the tree, I am showing signs of life. And like the tree, these signs of life are in the beginning phase and there is a long way t...
