Loss sprouts new life...

We've all experienced it … "Loss."

The pain associated with one’s personal loss is measured by the “value” of what was taken away – for some, the unimaginable! The loss of a loved one. For others, a job, marriage, dreams and yes … even hope.

One thing is for certain when faced with loss. It will surface the “Top Five Ws” in our hearts: “Who, What, When, Where & Why?”

Pulling some thoughts from Elisabeth Elliot’s book, “The Path of Loneliness,” Chapter 10 – “Death Is a New Beginning.”

“Loneliness is one kind of ‘dying’ most of us learn about sooner or later. Far from being ‘bad’ for us, a hindrance to spiritual growth, it may be the means of unfolding spiritual ‘blossoms’ hitherto enfolded. The full-blown beauty of the wild rose, its very ‘fulfillment’, depends on its continuously dying and living again. The death of the seed that falls into the ground produces a new cycle of life-the fresh little shoot, the full stalk, the bud the flower. The flower must die in order to produce the fruit. The fruit dies to allow the seed to fall once again into the ground. The seed dies & there is a ‘new beginning.’ Nothing is ever wasted. In God’s economy, whether He is making a flower or human soul, nothing ever comes to nothing. The losses are His way of accomplishing the gains.”

It’s important to remember God’s promises when we are faced with loss…He has not forgotten us…There is a purpose in all of it! Rest in God’s omniscience...

Isaiah 61:11 “For as the soil makes the sprout come up and a garden causes seeds to grow, so the Sovereign LORD will make righteousness and praise spring up before all nations.”