do you live in the morning or do you live in mourning!!

I was listening to our youth pastor deliver a very well thought out message about the loss of his mother!!

Just very heartwarming!!! Yet very intense in the sense it brought emotions!!!!

I listened to the room and you could hear the tears drip/ trickle and roll down the cheeks of others. but what moved me the most was the honesty of a grown man, being so open about loss and as I sit listening ;I looked up to see three young men in our church all of whom were alone (one is married although he has been attending regularily his wife does not, which we can't judge her reasons) it is great to see him stepping in faith, the other two young men always come alone. One thing I know without a doubt Mosaic was set in Crestview to raise up grown men to be open, share faith, grow friendships and be friends whom just "share life together" and mourn together.

When you loose something for some it is their pet, their firend to war, their parent to dementia, traggic auto wreck, or just simply from being abandoned by them, or to drugs ,even to their job.
For others it is thier grandparent their sister/brother/husband/ wife, other and then their is- divorce " a world of its own".

i recall my loss and I mourn. But, mostly I live in the morning and live in mourning . We are granted by grace to mourn for a time. but when you are alive and feel the grief but try to hide it from others that is when you can say you live in the morning and death or loss finds you alone it is when you feel the grief and hopelessness creeps in that is when you live in mourning.

We should be open about the loss just as our youth pastor was and the anger we carry will not harbor. You can't only be ok in the morning or when other's are around you must be ok in the stillness, in the dark, in the nite.

i am 43 as of recent and I have encountered ,much loss .

DEATH,DIVORCE, HEALTH, FINANCIAL, DISSAPOINMENT AND THE LIST COULD CONTINUE FOR WHAT I HAVE SURVIVED. BUT, WHEN IT IS GONE THAT IS EASY TO MOURN AND MOVE ONWARD AFTER A WHILE.

the things I encounter that are difficult to move away from are the ones God wants me to grown from. I am open to say I don't like the growth.

A marriage failling, a wife not fighting for it to grow, a sister searching for complete forgiveness, a mother searching for her son and his smile, a person whom loves her job but, dislikes parts of what i am having to do in the job. A mom whom finds it not so easy to see her daughter grow up. a sister whom so desires to see her mother in better health.

Please pray taht I seek to grow as God intends and not just simply choose to live in the morning and live in mourning.

I want to seek God in all hours when the sun is up and when the sun goes down.

Scott you did your mother proud and you heavenly father tips his hat to you ( so to speak)

i understand the big picture!!!!!!