Grief Bites: A New Approach to Growing Through GriefSample

Grief and heartbreaking hardships are painful. It is always painful when God allows your heart to be stretched out of your comfort zone. ...But what if the pain He allows in your life TODAY increases the flexibility of ways He is then able to use you for His glory TOMORROW? We always have the ability to choose to have faith and hope through every stretching circumstance we may face in life. During the stretching times of grief, realize that faith and hope go hand in hand. When hope is low, faith has the ability to build you back up...and vice versa. It is good to know that God is the source of all hope and He gives us both faith and hope to help us through difficult times of grief and trials. As we allow God to build faith and hope into our lives during grief, He in turn will have a much greater capacity to use us for His glory to minister to others. When you are being stretched out of your comfort zone, always remember that is the very place God will have the most flexibility to show His divine power through you to those He places in your life. Embrace these stretching times, never resent them.