“Father, if You are willing, take this cup from Me. Yet not My will, but Yours be done.” Then an angel from heaven appeared to Him and strengthened Him.
Some people start grieving at a kitchen table, watching a parent struggle with a jar lid that used to give way in their hands. Nobody has died. Perhaps there is a diagnosis now, or perhaps there is only a slow change you can't stop noticing. The loss hasn't come, and still you can feel it on its way.