Article July 20, 1992 Issue

Healing grief by turning to God

Christianity promises lasting comfort, not endless sorrow.

Dorothy Dipuo Maubane

After my husband's death, I was thrust into a mental wilderness, and great fear engulfed me. Grief made me miss my husband so much that I was actually envious when I saw other couples holding hands! Yet in my loneliness I longed to draw closer to God. I realized that I couldn't wait for time to heal my sorrow, because time possesses no intrinsic healing balm. Therefore I sought to follow the signposts of comfort by turning to God through prayer.

Like a roof over our heads when it's raining, prayer provides a shelter from the hard blows that daily life can deal. No matter how sorrow and sadness may come to us, we can find comfort. Prayer is a sure lifeboat, which brings us safely to the point of Christian healing.

The Bible says, "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." And Christ Jesus, the Way-shower for all mankind, proved this fact when he overcame death for a widow's son, a twelve-year-old girl, and his friend Lazarus. If death is an enemy, then all in its train—loneliness, sorrow, fear, envy, living in the past—are allied to the enemy and must be destroyed as well.

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