Pentecost: It's Our Turn Now! "Grief, Loss, and Suffering"

In the advent of a new decade, brimming with expectation and hope for new beginnings, our world was met with many forms of suffering and loss due to a history-making pandemic. With the pain of loss, the process of grieving is often overlooked in favor of coping mechanisms. To our detriment, these give us an out rather than a means of true healing and meaning to be found in our suffering. However, the story of our sufferings and losses do not end in despair but in hope and redemption. Through Christ, we are offered hope in our losses, empathy in our pain, and purpose with our suffering, so that we too can provide healing and redemption, just as he had.