Many times in our lives we get blind-sided by the news of a friend’s death or of a sudden death in our immediate family and we don’t know how to handle it. We must seek Jesus in our grief and let Him have the pain and the suffering. It sounds easy but it isn’t, particularly at the time of the loss. Why am I bringing this up today? Because, yesterday was the fourth anniversary of my Dachshund, Trixie, passing away and I need to write about it.

The months after her death were hard because she was only a month or two from her 15th birthday. It happened during the first months of COVID so we couldn’t be in the office with her which hurt. It felt like losing a child because it was so sudden. One of the girls came to the door and told us we needed to come in quickly. They had taken an x-ray of her and she had an enlarged heart and by the time we got inside, she was taking her last breath. Even four years after the event just thinking about it hurts.

Grief doesn’t go away. Time may help eventually but grief and the pain of loss never really go away. We must give those feelings to Jesus and let Him help us with them. God knows the pain and the feelings that we have when a beloved family member dies and we have to trust Him in the pain so we can move through it one day at a time.