it doesn’t matter

The eyes of a wise person see things clearly. A person who is foolish lives in darkness. But I finally realized that death catches up with both of them.

- Ecclesiastes 2:14 (NIRV)

 

“Grief never really goes away.  It gets quieter, slower, and sometimes it comes rushing back like the sea”.
I heard that on a Netflix series that I was binge watching while my husband was out of town, and it struck a nerve with me.
Grief is weird. 
First, there are many things that cause humans to grieve. 
Then we get through the grief and past what ever trauma triggered the grief only to land back in the cycle a few days, weeks, months, even years later.

We often dwell on what went wrong and begin the process of grieving again.
Some people don’t understand grief or loss and so their “words of encouragement” are not at all encouraging, but rather mean instead.
If you are cycling through grief and someone tells you to “get over it”, or “it gets better” or the worst one  “it was just a pet”.
Everyone grieves differently. 
I have two friends who have lost beloved pets recently, and I know a person (who I don’t consider a friend) that is a breeder.
The two friends will still on occasion have tears over the loss of their fur babies, meanwhile the breeder is mercilessly destroying litters because they aren’t up to standards.
These three people are completely different in every way possible, obviously viewing the same situation from completely different points of view.
Death, injustice, and loss are facts of every life. 
There is a quote on the internet “No matter how big your house is, how recent your car is, or how big your bank account is, our graves will always be the same size.”
It doesn’t matter what your point of view is, if it clear or cloudy, light, or dark.
At the end of the day, we all die. 
Jesus died for us, a sacrifice so that we can be made right with God and find meaning in this crazy life.
Be a person that sees things clearly. 

 

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