The Valuable Lesson We Can All Learn From Loss by Maria Goff

The Valuable Lesson We Can All Learn From Loss  “Haven’t I commanded you: be strong and courageous? Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9 Loss visits all of us. None of us gets to opt out. Rather than praying that we never experience loss again, our prayer should be that God would show us what’s possible on the other side of the loss. While we’re waiting to find out what God might have for us, we might be sad for a while but we’re not going to be stuck. We’re going to move forward. Love keeps us going and hope moves our feet. God does not put loss in our lives to show us His power. God does this to allow each of us to go through difficult times to show us His presence through it. It’s as if He reminds each of us in our most difficult circumstances that the most beautiful waterfalls only happen in the steepest places in our lives.

Excerpt from Love Lives Here by Maria Goff © 2017. B&H Publishing Group. Used by permission.