Good Grief

The funeral ended and the crowds moved outside to comfort the family. Tears flowed as they embraced the grieving; the family received strength. We are designed to need other people, even when it comes to grieving properly. We cry more freely at funerals when people hug us. The hug tells us, that it is alright to let go because there is still someone here for us. We need others to hold us through the process. Rom 12.15. We mourn with those who mourn.
Tears come in the eyes, not in the souls of our feet, so people can see our need and hold us up.

We can experience grief whenever we lose a family member when a dear relationship ends or even when we lose a cherished job. When hopes are smashed, we need someone to hold us and help us through to a new life. As the natural body heals itself, so it takes the spiritual body of Christ to heal us too. The Body can take a load from us; it can compensate and take away infection from our soul. God brings people into the church body to be healed, who are emotionally wounded, rejected or damaged by life and relationships.

Friend, when people first come into a loving church body, they are nearly always dulling the pain in their heart but when they are healed by the Body, the pain and even destructive cycles of sin can be broken. Didn't someone sing "Love the one your with"? Maybe they meant at Church!