From "A Symphony in the Dark" by Barbara Rainey and Rebecca Rainey Mutz. Rebecca lost her first child right after she was born due to multiple heart and brain defects. They express the feelings that many of us have felt from loss, but also have a beautiful way of explaining God's part in it all.
"Humans are afraid of pain. No one likes to hurt. We avoid it, mask it, and run from it, refusing to get close to pain even when it is not our own...Fear can make us superstitious and irrational. But God does not act haphazardly.Good and beauty can be found in the experience of loss if we are willing to embrace it. But finding the good and beautiful is only possible when we believe that God is lovingly sovereign, that pain is not random, not without origin, not without purpose."
"We also believe that death is in fact a disease that infects all of humanity, yet we know with certainty that God never intended that we should die. Death feels so wrong to all who face it because it is so wrong. Intuitively we feel the discord, the incongruity that screams, 'This should not be!' that strongly suggests there is another way. This clash within is a call to our hearts to believe the gospel."
"Likewise, the Creator of all beauty knows that in His living works of art and song the most beautiful are those who have known the darkness of pain and loss... Truly the experience of death makes the experience of the gift of life all the more precious and beautiful. This, I believe, is the message of Romans 8:28: 'And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.'"
And by Larry Crabb
"The suffering caused by shattered dreams must not be thought of as something to relieve if we can or endure if we must. It's an opportunity to be embraced, a chance to discover our desire for the highest blessing God wants to give us, an encounter with Himself!"
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