“Life is waves.
And however this day, this next week, or the next few months, or the next few years unfold, there is going to be suffering that enfolds us all.
Because the reality of the trajectory of human life isn’t a straight lined of ascent, from strength to strength, climbing higher and higher, but like a repeating W, a dying and rising, a dying and rising, over and over again — the heights and peaks of the cresting waves — and then the depths and valleys of the falling waves.
Life is waves — and there is no controlling these waves. Grief comes in waves. Suffering comes in waves.
There is no controlling life’s storms, there is only learning to live with waves.
And the real work of being human is mastering how to process losses while being in the process of moving forward.
Losses are a given, but what you do with what’s still been given, is what will take you where you want to go.
Loss may be a four letter word — but it’s a word that you don’t read to understand, but rather one you feel in your gut and hold on to Jesus to keep standing.
In losses, we gain an understanding of who we really are.
In losses, we gain a vision of who we can still become.
Life, grief, suffering, losses it all comes in waves. But. BUT!
But we can get out of the boat, we can have faith to walk on waves, we can look up & see through the underbelly of storm clouds, to a shimmer of star, a shaft of light, that catches us like hope finding us again, & we can feel it warm on our heaven-turned faces.
Every darkened shadow of suffering is but a passing thing: there is always light and more light above this temporal storm.
In Christ, we are all living in an ocean of light, so there is no grief, no suffering, no loss to ever fear.
There is light above this storm and no suffering can carry us away from the reach of His light.
#TheBrokenWay #TheWayOfAbundance”
Ann Voskamp
