Sorry about the person that spammed our site. Can you imagine a
person doing that to a grief site? How desperate.

I suppose get-rich-quick schemes are somewhat like get-well-quick
schemes. There's a process to successfully making money and there's
a process to working through grief.

A person that instantly comes into money without earning it or going
through the process where the value of money is really established
misses true riches.

There's really no choice for grief. We chose to be in relationships
and when those end with the person dying, we're in grief. Sometimes
the death is instant (get-grief-quick), sometimes it's an extended
illness yet the loss still almost always seems sudden.

I've been so thankful walking with many of you through your
difficult path of grief. It's not a quick process. It's long,
often/generally very hard yet God is gracious in this challenge.

David's words in Psalms 18 ministered to my heart this morning. I
share it here but warn it's a long read. Enjoy and the peace of God
be with you my friends.

John

Psalm 18:1-50 To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David the servant
of the LORD, who spoke to the LORD the words of this song on the day
that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and
from the hand of Saul. And he said: I will love You, O LORD, my
strength. 2 The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer;
My God, my strength, in whom I will trust; My shield and the horn of
my salvation, my stronghold. 3 I will call upon the LORD, who is
worthy to be praised; So shall I be saved from my enemies. 4 The
pangs of death surrounded me, And the floods of ungodliness made me
afraid. 5 The sorrows of Sheol surrounded me; The snares of death
confronted me. 6 In my distress I called upon the LORD, And cried
out to my God; He heard my voice from His temple, And my cry came
before Him, even to His ears. 7 Then the earth shook and trembled;
The foundations of the hills also quaked and were shaken, Because He
was angry. 8 Smoke went up from His nostrils, And devouring fire
from His mouth; Coals were kindled by it. 9 He bowed the heavens
also, and came down With darkness under His feet. 10 And He rode
upon a cherub, and flew; He flew upon the wings of the wind. 11 He
made darkness His secret place; His canopy around Him was dark
waters And thick clouds of the skies. 12 From the brightness before
Him, His thick clouds passed with hailstones and coals of fire. 13
The LORD thundered from heaven, And the Most High uttered His voice,
Hailstones and coals of fire. 14 He sent out His arrows and
scattered the foe, Lightnings in abundance, and He vanquished them.
15 Then the channels of the sea were seen, The foundations of the
world were uncovered At Your rebuke, O LORD, At the blast of the
breath of Your nostrils. 16 He sent from above, He took me; He drew
me out of many waters. 17 He delivered me from my strong enemy,
From those who hated me, For they were too strong for me. 18 They
confronted me in the day of my calamity, But the LORD was my
support. 19 He also brought me out into a broad place; He delivered
me because He delighted in me. 20 The LORD rewarded me according to
my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands He has
recompensed me. 21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, And have
not wickedly departed from my God. 22 For all His judgments were
before me, And I did not put away His statutes from me. 23 I was
also blameless before Him, And I kept myself from my iniquity. 24
Therefore the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness,
According to the cleanness of my hands in His sight. 25 With the
merciful You will show Yourself merciful; With a blameless man You
will show Yourself blameless; 26 With the pure You will show
Yourself pure; And with the devious You will show Yourself shrewd.
27 For You will save the humble people, But will bring down haughty
looks. 28 For You will light my lamp; The LORD my God will
enlighten my darkness. 29 For by You I can run against a troop, By
my God I can leap over a wall. 30 As for God, His way is perfect;
The word of the LORD is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in
Him. 31 For who is God, except the LORD? And who is a rock, except
our God? 32 It is God who arms me with strength, And makes my way
perfect. 33 He makes my feet like the feet of deer, And sets me on
my high places. 34 He teaches my hands to make war, So that my arms
can bend a bow of bronze. 35 You have also given me the shield of
Your salvation; Your right hand has held me up, Your gentleness has
made me great. 36 You enlarged my path under me, So my feet did not
slip. 37 I have pursued my enemies and overtaken them; Neither did
I turn back again till they were destroyed. 38 I have wounded them,
So that they could not rise; They have fallen under my feet. 39 For
You have armed me with strength for the battle; You have subdued
under me those who rose up against me. 40 You have also given me
the necks of my enemies, So that I destroyed those who hated me. 41
They cried out, but there was none to save; Even to the LORD, but He
did not answer them. 42 Then I beat them as fine as the dust before
the wind; I cast them out like dirt in the streets. 43 You have
delivered me from the strivings of the people; You have made me the
head of the nations; A people I have not known shall serve me. 44
As soon as they hear of me they obey me; The foreigners submit to
me. 45 The foreigners fade away, And come frightened from their
hideouts. 46 The LORD lives! Blessed be my Rock! Let the God of my
salvation be exalted. 47 It is God who avenges me, And subdues the
peoples under me; 48 He delivers me from my enemies. You also lift
me up above those who rise against me; You have delivered me from
the violent man. 49 Therefore I will give thanks to You, O LORD,
among the Gentiles, And sing praises to Your name. 50 Great
deliverance He gives to His king, And shows mercy to His anointed,
To David and his descendants forevermore.