Finding God in Our Feelings: Good Grief

Happy Mother’s Day, as we celebrate every woman today, whether you are a mother or are remembering your own mother. This day can be bittersweet and stir up a lot of memories and emotions. We can experience a myriad of feelings, including gratitude, loss, joy, pain, regret, and hope, even a co-mingling of feelings on this day. The New York Times recently headlined the following article: “America’s Mothers Are in Crisis: Is Anyone Listening to Them?”; other headlines have heralded similar themes. According to one study, almost 70% of mothers say that worry and stress have damaged their health. Even if you aren’t a mother raising children now, we can see the toil and have concerns for our friends, our daughters, our sisters, and our wives. Sometimes our feelings around being a mother or a woman are fanned by false narratives from an idealized image around motherhood that simply isn’t true. Being a mother is very hard work that comes with all kinds of struggles, trials, disappointments, and pain. It doesn’t always work out the way we want it to in the end. This message will unpack God’s Word around Facing Grief and Finding God. We face all kinds of grief in our daily lives, not just grief from the death of a loved one. Grief hurts, and it can last long. But God is there; God wants to comfort, lead, and guide us through “good grief.” Let’s go to God’s Word and explore the story of Hannah, one mother who faced grief and found God in her feelings...