I am sad over one of my best friends divorce. I never saw a divorce possible for such an amazing couple. They were so in love for 8 years but the last year was too hard, and now he is leaving.
I keep thinking about William P. Young's definition for grief in his book The Shack. He called it the great sadness. Obviously, I don’t know the first thing about losing a child (like in the book) nor do I know anything about the personal pain of divorce, but I am sad.
Michael says to look at the good things that are happening in my friends life and to see God’s hand in it. I do see that, I am just struggling with the typical (and somewhat annoying) why question. Why??? I’ve tried to think positively about how much depth sadness brings to a friendship; a depth that joy doesn’t reach but that doesn’t make it much better. I’d still rather have joy. I want my friend to be happy. Even I have sadness coming at me from different angles over this situation so I can’t imagine the sadness that is attacking her.
Anyway, it’s not as bad as it sounds, it’s just since I heard, I occasionally get overwhelmed with sadness for my friend.
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