Everything You Love You Will Lose

“Everything you love, you will lose”- Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow

As we wrestle with lament this week, we face our humanity with a certain uneasy rawness. Yes, we will lose what we love, but does that mean we don’t risk loving in the first place? Yes, we will experience great pain or confusion or loss - but does that mean we don’t keep pressing into life?

David wrote many prayers - some were when things were great and he was praising God; some where when he was suffering great loss. Both were legitimate prayers, because both are normal and even healthy seasons of life. So take some time and see if you can pray this prayer with honesty to God, naming where you feel crushed and yet also plainly asking for help and deliverance.

I am bowed down and brought very low;
all day long I go about mourning…
I am feeble and utterly crushed;
I groan in anguish of heart.

All my longings lie open before you, Lord;
    my sighing is not hidden from you.
My heart pounds, my strength fails me;
    even the light has gone from my eyes.

Lord, do not forsake me;
do not be far from me, my God.
Come quickly to help me,
my Lord and my Savior. - Psalm 38:6-10, 21-22