the art of grief.
By Trey Hill
27 Sep 2007
last night i was working on an image for a set i have going over at flickr [...] and after posting "into the glorious freedom" i received an email from a blog i read often. it's called desiring God and the guy that runs it was expecting a granddaughter, but she was stillborn. his post on what he said at her funeral was earth shatteringly beautiful. and it seemed in harmony with the image i'd just spent time on.
the set i mentioned on flickr has become a place of personal meditation and this particular image was a meditation on some words from Romans that won't leave me right now.
the whole creation groans. there is loss and sadness and heartache and pain. but, for those who love Jesus, our present pain is as nothing compared to what we wait expectantly for. redemption. the bondage we experience in the everyday to the decay of the world around us is only understood in the context of that redemption - and that is the core of my hope. that someday, i will be ushered into the glorious freedom that accompanies being a child of God.
the gut wrenching grief that goes along with losing someone can ultimately be assuaged by such hope. but to have the hope, you must first have Jesus.
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