GRIEF
Joseph Bayly, in his helpful book The View From A Hearse, shares an experience of comfort that he received when one of his children died. “I was sitting,” he remembers, “torn by grief. Someone came and talked to me of God’s dealings, of why it happened, of hope beyond the grave. He talked constantly, he said things I knew were true. I was unmoved, except to wish he’d go away. He finally did. Another came and sat beside me. He didn’t talk. He didn’t ask leading questions. He just sat beside me for an hour and more, listening when I said something, answered briefly, prayed simply, left. I was moved. I was comforted. I hated to see him go.” As related by Haddon W. Robinson in Grief (Christian Medical Society, Zondervan, 1976), p. 12.
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