excerpt from"Mosaic"

I've completed Amy Grant's book, Mosaic; Julie is now reading it. Among the many reflections of living life that caused me to stop was this one:

Loss
The question is "How do we live with loss?" The cycle of investment/loss is manifested time and again in our lives.

We invest in children. They grow up and move on.

We invest in partners, and eventually that familiarity is susceptible to some level of contempt. We invest in friendships, and circumstances change, and loyalties turn to lip service and loss.

Sometimes we're blindsided by it.

The ways I learn to deal with loss might be useful tools for my children. I must remember, "We mourn, but not as those without hope."

God's view of life, of us, is eternal. Loss is temporary. (page 173)

A year ago our sister-in-law Deb was dying; these days we often think of her journey, her loss, the family's loss, our loss ... While Amy Grant's words certainly bring hope to the losses we experience in death of those we know and love, her words speak to the many other losses of life.