In His Likeness w/ AntTBri

Isn’t  it amazing how humanity treats loss?  We either rationalize it away or deny another the right to grieve it’s realities when it is not our experience.  We buy cards, fix meals, visit, sit with and speak to the injured with well intentioned mean well words.  We try to help ease the pain by offering hope and possibility beyond the moment of pain.  We rush in to build them up in faith before allowing them the right to be broken, fractured, or displaced by their present situation in their humanity.

God is not offset by our humanity, he does not detest our inability, nor is he condemning us for feeling what we feel and thinking what we think in relation to the loss.  He simply grants us new mercies and grace to ensure we get back to the right heart posture and love inspired perspective of who He is with or without the things we’ve grown accustomed to having, depending upon, and needing.  He allows for the ups and downs of the process, he acknowledges the pain that accompanies change, and he accomplishes for us what we in and of ourselves cannot.

Loss is loss no matter how we try to flip it, dress it up, or optimistically approach it. Be it the loss of an item , an individual, or an intricate part of one’s make up the feelings, realities, and disparities are real.  The emotions and experience can not be denied or replaced without the allowance  of grief.  A deficit has been created, discouragement, disappointment, and damages produce a deficiency that time must heal.   The human psyche and soul does not easily accept, approach, adjust, or account for what was but  is no more.  It feels robbed,  resentful, and resistive to the process despite the possibilities of a better tomorrow.  Impending new opportunities  as beautiful, wonderful, and purposeful  as they may be can not replace the distortion and disparity of loss.

The picture seen is devastating, deplorable, and demeaning to previously erected confidences, reliance’s, and dependence . It really doesn’t matter how we lost it because the end result is the same: what was once treasured, valued, and depended upon is no longer available to us.  It is understandably hard to adjust to such an abrupt change.  It doesn’t feel fair that we would have to reconfigure everything that once worked in conjunction with the thing, around the absence of the thing.

Rather I’ve experienced, understand, or can relate to your particular loss or not I’m compelled to share in your sadness and sorrow, to say I’m sorry for your loss.  I want to acknowledge that it matters, that it is important to you, that you’ve grown to love, gained confidence in, and gathered memories that sustain, support, and strengthen your quality of life. That life is being drastically altered and for that I offer prayers of intercession.

I pray that you experience the God kind of peace that surpasses your understanding and frees you from antithetical opinions and behaviors of men and yourself.  I pray that the Word in you, is  accurate, active, and alive, that it bubbles up and comes to surface expeditiously working in you the will to do and be what God purposes. I pray you take the time your need to get back to the good, that God redeems the time, and grants you an extreme amount of patience while you are transitioning.  I pray that your heart posture toward God anchors your resolve, that in and with time you are able to perceive the plan and purposing of God for allocating and allowing the loss. I pray that your faith fails you not and that God shows up and out on your behalf when you need him to; don’t expect and  can’t gather the strength to fight or believe for anything or more. I lend you my smile, my energy, my exuberance and expectation of better days and times; a heart always toward you excited to meet you on the other side of all this devastation.   I’m standing with you in faith and friendship as you face your deepest fears, frustrations, and frailties. God keep you and hold you in the hallow of his capable hands while your facing the realities of your current loss. ~AntTBri