“Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.”
Matthew 5:4, KJV
Gifts from grief came along with all the hard, traumatic losses of my first marriage.
For starters, I appreciate what was restored to me more. I do not take my position as a husband and father today for granted.
This was driven home to me today as I visited my daughter at school for lunch. She made a special rest to have me come since I was off work.
I treasure these visits in my heart.
They are sweet to me knowing how I felt when my first wife rejected me and a future with children with me in it. Through the grief of such loss has come gratitude.
It is a gift from God that I get to be Munchkin’s dad.
There are other gifts, too.
Things I did not notice the first time I was married or under-appreciated at the time. This is what I mean by the gifts of grief.
Like losing your health, you gain a new appreciation for when you were healthy prior (and probably never thought of it as such).
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