Godly grief produces a repentance not to be regretted and leading to salvation, but worldly grief produces death. 2 Corinthians 7:10

In fact, the absence of appropriate grief after loss may be an indicator of another kind of serious stronghold.

I have observed the misery of My people in Egypt, and have heard them crying out because of their oppressors. Exodus 3:7

Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief.

Happiness is a choice, but grief is a certainty.

Grief can kill a person emotionally and physically. If not counteracted with God's strength and power, our personal weakness may debilitate us.

My heart breaks to see the world in such turmoil.

God doesn't comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters.

We don't have to be on the battlefields of the world to experience strife and conflict. We need only to open our eyes each morning and read the headlines, we need only to turn a keen ear when our phones ring with bad news, we need only to open our hearts to those next door—and maybe even in our own homes—to notice those with grieving hearts.

Grief comes with many losses. Whatever its cause, grief will come to all of us.

Grief which is not dealt with properly can cause us to lose our perspective on life.

While we yearn for peace, we live in a world burdened with hunger, pain, anguish, loneliness, sickness, and sorrow.