Shared by permission of Krista Smith

Loss comes in many forms. It doesn’t have a schedule. It doesn’t have a limit.  It just comes whenever and stays as long as it needs. Sometimes it leaves you breathless. Sometimes you want to run. But it always leaves you a different person and it takes a strength you never thought you had.

Whether your loss is through divorce or death, and I’ve experienced both, it is never welcome and never a path you would choose to take. There are days I don’t think I will make it. There are days I try to forget everything that has happened just to get through the day. But normal will never be again.

They say I need to find my new normal. But I didn’t want a new normal. I liked my normal. How do you embrace something you never wanted?

I don’t know the answers to these questions but I know I won’t stop trying to find them. It won’t be easy, it won’t be quick but it is necessary to survive.

I have been involved in a very good Bible Study this past summer. I would recommend it to everyone who may be asking some of these same questions. It is called “You’ll Get Through This” from Max Lucado. It comes with a study guide with a video and also as a book. The study is based on these 6 simple sentences. But these simple sentences have changed my life.  I hope you can cling onto them and let them change yours too.