I wrote recently… back on May 29th… about my friend Mark losing his wife… he is mourning over his incredible loss… this is what I said…
“Mark’s heart was broken… he is mourning… I went to the service yesterday… I had no great words of wisdom for him… no trite sayings… there was only a great big hug from the One who lives in my container… some tears… weeping with those who weep… lots of His love… and the making of myself available to him at any time… to listen… He is the One who comforts… He is the comforter.
When we think of people in mourning, this is the kind of thing we think of… we think of those who have suffered the loss of a loved one… great sorrow… grieving… but… I have grieved over many other things in my life… beyond just the loss of someone I love… it has to do with yesterday’s list... it has to do with the horrors I have personally done to others… all from the things on that list… it is not a pretty list…
“…For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, 22adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. 23All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”
I have grieved deeply over so many things I did to others because of this list… they defiled me… I mourned over them…
Today, I live so thankful for the “Comforter”… who came and comforted me in my grief… in my mourning… the Comforter who also forgave me for all the sins against so many others… and then…. set me free from the horror…
More tomorrow…
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