Written by Ann Voskamp
Posted on 08 July 2025
Grief can feel like a dam breach, and you feel all this aching sadness for one heartbreak… that gives way to grieving all kinds of collective losses and accumulative sadness. “If God allowed these tragedies — how can we pray to Him, lean on Him, trust in Him, through these same tragedies?“ I fought tears much of the day yesterday, and then I just let it all come, moved with a deep, deep, sadness over so many tender, heart-shattering tragedies… which broke open some interior dam of memories, for all kinds of tragedies we have ever tried to survive. The moment I witnessed my sister killed. The day the police told me Dad was killed. Sometimes one tragedy can cascade into this emotional torrent of heartache for all kinds of tragedies. I sat with a Texas friend who attended 3 prayer vigils this weekend with other disoriented and numb Mamas, whose little girl has inconsolably lost her best friend in the inconceivable heartbreak of this weekend, and confessed she wasn’t even sure where to begin talking to God? In the midst of the sharp heartache, sometimes, if you’re very still, and very honest, you can begin to feel what is […]
