Your Morning Coffee 09/03/2025

Good morning!

Welcome to your morning coffee! May our Heavenly Father comfort us in our grief, in our hurting. Father, help us not to ignore it, but to embrace this season of Lament, of sorrow, by seeking your presence! Please help us, Jesus. Give us the comfort of your presence in our every-day living, where small, familiar things now have sharp edges mixed with abiding joy. Holy Spirit, fill us, fill our prayers, make us able to sing, make us able to get up in the morning and praise you, and the Son, and our Father in Heaven. God, we need you. Every hour we need you. Thank you that there are no goodbyes in your kingdom. May your name be praised and your Will be done above all others! Amen.

Your Morning Song: "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=RDR8_o924Ziog&v=R8_o924Ziog

Your Morning Scripture:

Psalm 38:14

The Lord is near to the brokenhearted

and saves the crushed in spirit.

Psalm 55:22

Cast your burden on the Lord, and He will sustain you;

He will never permit the righteous to be moved.

Psalm 147:3

He heals the brokenhearted

and binds up their wounds.

John 11:28-35

When she had said this, she went and called her sister Mary, saying in private, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.” And when she heard it, she rose quickly and went to him. Now Jesus had not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha had met him. When the Jews who were with her in the house, consoling her, saw Mary rise quickly and go out, they followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep there. Now when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled. And he said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.” Jesus wept.

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To all of God's children who have lost one of your dear loved ones to death, God sees you and loves you and is closer to you than you are even capable of understanding.

You are not okay.

Grief over death is too much broken glass on a kitchen floor. Pieces breaking into pieces into sharp-edged dust. You sweep and wipe and vacuum, but there's always more.

Don't get offended by those who say small pleasantries trying to get you to move past your grief. They mean well, and they don't know what else to do. And they're uncomfortable with your grief. Because it is so great, so heavy, in every corner of every space in our day-to-day routine. Forgive them. They don't know what they're talking about.

But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe we should just get over it. Maybe grief is meant to be a brief, several day thing. What does God have to say about our grief?

Those three Psalms above are just a few places in the Bible where God shows His response to our grief and sorrow. He doesn't slap us on the back and say, "Hey! Cheer up! I'm going to fix all this anyway... someday..."

No. He is near. He heals. He supports. He is less the uncomfortable friend who is afraid to swim with you in the deep end of your grief, and more the one who comes over to your house and just hugs you and cries with you and prays with you.

God dives in and swims in the sorrow with us, holding us up, healing our hearts.

And there is more. Look carefully at the account of Jesus at Lazarus's funeral. We all know the famous verse that itself echoes the Psalms above, Jesus wept. But look again, at the words "deeply moved."

If you look through the different translations of the Bible you will not find many saying the same thing "deeply moved." The word is difficult to translate simply for easy reading, and so we are often left with something less than it should be, "indignant," or something vague enough to fit the scope of Jesus's feelings but missing the detail, "deeply moved." One commentator's note in the NET Bible says, "“shuddered, moved with the deepest emotions.”

Jesus was so heartbroken at Lazarus's death and the way in which his family and friends were hurting, that He was heartbroken unto anger. And when He wept it was in sorrowful anger.

He did that for Mary and Martha and the others who were there hurting and broken.

What makes you think that He does anything different for you?

But unlike any of the rest of us, Jesus can actually do something about it. It says again in the verses that follow the selection about, that Jesus was deeply moved. And then He called Lazarus out of the tomb. And out he came.

For the sheep know the shepherd's voice. And the grave is no bar to His call.

Our Savior is heartbroken and angry for us, though we ourselves have put ourselves here (Gen. 3:8-9). He will not leave us to this, to death and grief and sorrow. But He calls out to us as He grieves with us. He holds us close, as He whispers gentle promises in the quiet of lost routine, of small memories, and the ache of a voice fallen only to echoes and voicemails.

Jesus is with you.

Jesus will comfort and heal you.

Jesus will never leave you or forsake you.

Jesus is heartbrokenly angry for you.

And He has done something about it.

And not because you deserve it. But because He loves you.

Rest, child of God. And listen for His promises, whispered to you in a still small voice. That someday all will be made new. And He will callout to you, and you will know His voice. And He will wipe away your tears. And there will no mourning, no crying, no pain.

Because He loves you.