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Grief and Loss · Day 215

Familiar With Sorrow

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not. Surely He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted.
Isaiah 53:3–4 · BSB

Grief has a way of making a room feel larger than it is. You might sit in the chair you always sit in and find the space around you seems to stretch, as though everyone has quietly stepped back to give you room you never asked for.

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