GRIEVING THAT HEALS

“And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him” (Luke 23:27).
Grieving is a natural process when loosing someone we love. One may ask, “How long must I grieve?” The answer is, “as long as it takes.” Deeper the love deeper the grieving will be. On the other hand, we must be careful we do not allow our grieving to become harmful.
Harmful grieving harms our health and threatens the space we occupy. It is ...so easy when we are grieving to forget the space we occupy. In our space are other loved ones loving the same person we have loved; children, adults, and senior adults. As private as we may try to be with our grieving it is never exclusively about us.
Negative grieving is anything that gives off negative representation. In Jesus’ case, He actually calls their hand on the ignorance in their grieving. “But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us. For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?” (Luke 23:28-31)
When it comes to Jesus death His desire is our grieving brings deliverance and healing. After all, it is why He chose to die for us.
“Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life” (Romans 5:9-10).