Today is the most solemn and serious day in the Catholic Liturgical calendar: Good Friday.
A day for prayer and fasting and meditation.
A day for reflection.
As a child, I found Good Friday hard to comprehend. As an adult, I am certain of one thing: that my understanding is not as perfect as I may think, "for now we see through a glass, darkly".
But that in itself is comforting to me. I don't have to fully understand God's plan. I don't have to understand how He "perfects" our tragedies and our mistakes and our sinful actions to His will.
I can simply accept it.
This Easter, dear friends are grieving: it is their first Easter after the loss of their children.
All of their children.
And I know they are not alone, for friends in Haiti have told me of similar stories: men and women bent in grief over the loss of beloved children. I know it is a bitter story repeated across our broken world.
Please pray with me that in their grief the Promise of the Resurrection will bring them a measure of peace and comfort.
*all their children*? The sorrow must be unimaginable. Prayers for them.
ReplyDeleteHi Deb, Yes, *all* of their children - three beautiful little girls. Its heartbreaking - and every parent's worst nightmare! Thanks for the prayers ;)
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