no words

Sometimes no matter which words I choose - and no matter how hard I try to arrange them in an order that makes sense, the effort is futile. Seems there are just some times that defy words. 

Sunday I gave up trying to wrap words around discombobulated (my own word) thoughts almost before I even started trying - and instead asked my friend who had just learned of her son's tragic death to consider the email I fumbled to type as one big hug that I was wrapping around her in an attempt to absorb some of her pain and grief. That is, after all, what I would have wanted any words I might have used to do. To somehow ease her/their burden.


¹⁸ Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. ^{I John 3:18}

Yesterday was a rainy day - as if the earth itself was mourning the loss of this young man. The girls and I headed over to the family's home to attempt to do something more practical toward the end of easing their burden. Before we left our house I failed again to write words of comfort and encouragement that I felt would do what they were intended to do. And even as we visited at their home it seemed I just kinda babbled (blubbered is more like it!) - used too many meaningless words.  

How does one make sense of such tragedy?!

In the car on our way back home a song came to mind and I sensed perhaps it was God's way of helping the girls and I to understand that when we find ourselves at a loss for words, it's ok. It's ok  because God's Word faithfully (since the very beginning of time!) speaks Truth - which is exactly Who & What we need to cling to during such times as this - and only He is SO good (key word here) at it.


⁶ Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. ^{John 14:6}

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 The last thing I need is to be heard

 - but - 

to hear what HE would say.

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²⁸ And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. ^{Romans 8:28}

This song below is my prayer on behalf of our grieving friends and all who have been impacted by the tragic loss of this young man (my family included). I pray that as God's Word is shared at the funeral, during that time set apart to be still before attempting to move on, they/we will just know that God is "in this place" - and I pray that HE will speak - that HIS Word will pour down like the rain and tears have been - and wash our eyes to see His Majesty. 

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ² He was with God in the beginning. ³ Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. ⁴ In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. ⁵ The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.  ^{John 1:1-5}