Suddenly you were gone:

The moment when suddenly becomes part of your journey. Suddenly isn’t a stranger to any of us, it will visit us at some point in time. Unfortunately suddenly for my grandson came too sudden, I was sleeping when the suddenly phone call came. The call no one wants to receive. The call to tell me my grandson had been in a wreck and was gone. I went to bed & all the sudden woke up to a change that will impact my journey and the journey of my daughters life forever while we are still here. Teagan Joshua is no longer here with us anymore. My daughter is now walking the grief road in a new way, she lost her son. I am now walking the grief road in a familiar but new way, I lost my 14 year old grandson, this is different from losing my 8 hour old grandson Judah. I had time with Teagan, I had love I shared with him and memories I was blessed to share and make with him. Teagan held a very special place in my heart and the many that his life touched in his time on earth.

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How do we go forward past this suddenly?

We are broken and our hearts have been shattered suddenly.

Walking on the grief road has just taken a turn and we are right back in the hard pain and hurt that comes with death. My daughter is grieving and mourning the loss of a child and I am broken and having to see her broken in a way that is indescribable. My heart was already grieving the loss of my mom that happened suddenly one day 7 weeks before this tragic loss.

There is only one way to deal with these losses that came suddenly. That way is to surrender the brokenness to Jesus Christ, He is the healer of the brokenhearted. I haven’t been able to walk one day on this road without Him and I must press into Him.

When I woke up this morning I began to ponder the past few weeks and my thoughts quickly turned to abiding in Christ. I abide in Him. Abiding in Him is the only way to do this. He is the Vine and I am the branch. John 15: 1-17 is Jesus speaking to us about being a branch and abiding in Him.

I want to quote verse 7 & 8, If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.

In this sudden turn on the grief road, I abide in Him and His words abide in me. So I will ask Him to heal our broken hearts and bind up our wounds and help us to walk this out, so He (the Lord) will be glorified and I will bear much fruit and prove to be His disciple.

As I write this blog,I want to encourage you to ask Jesus to help you to travel the grief road even in the suddenly turns.

Psalms 9:9-10 The LORD is a stronghold for the oppressed (crushed), a stronghold in times of trouble. And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.

Even in the suddenly I will put my trust in you and believe your Word that you are a stronghold for us in our oppression in our crushed hearts and lives.

I encourage you as the reader of this blog to do the same, it’s all we can do in the suddenly.

I put my hope in seeing my grandson one day again, because my hope is in Jesus and one day this pain of the suddenly losing my grandson will end. I will one day see him again and the suddenly will be gone.

Follow me,

As I Follow Him,

Down the grief road

Tracey Lynn