Tag: Mourning
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Good Grief (Matthew 5:4; John 11:17-35)
Grief tells us something is wrong with the world. But it also awakens a longing for the day when God will make all things new. In the second Beatitude, Jesus doesn’t tell us to deny our sorrow—He promises that sorrow will not have the last word.
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Day 137: My Father is Peace (2 Samuel 18:33)
But even in the wailing, Scripture whispers a deeper truth: the Father of Peace has not abandoned us.
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Day 029: A Grievous Mourning by the… Egyptians? (Genesis 50:7-11)
When Jacob’s sons returned to Canaan to bury their father, the people of the land assumed they were Egyptians. In less than a generation, God’s people had become indistinguishable from the culture around them—a quiet warning about how easily freedom can forget its true home.