Andi

I'd love it if everyone would take the time to submit scriptures that were particularly helpful to them during this time. I know not everyone is up to reading their bible, yet, however, maybe just reading through the little nuggets that others leave will bring encouragement.

I'll start....
I was reading Lamentations 3 because of a wonderful (brief) bible study for those in grief (The one year book of Hope by Nancy Gutherie - I HIGHLY recommend it) and I pulled out all the verses that spoke to me. I hope they're helpful to you, too...

Lamentations 3 various verses from 9-57:

"He has barred my way with blocks of stone; He has made my paths crooked.
He pierced my heart with arrow from His quiver
I have been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.
So, I say, "my splendor is gone and all that I had hoped from the Lord."
I remember my affliction...
I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me.

Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope:

Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed.
I say to myself, "the Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for Him"

It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.
Let him sit alone in silence, for the Lord had laid it on him.
Let him bury his face in the dust - there may yet be hope.
For men are not cast off by the Lord forever.

Though He brings grief, He will show compassion, so great is His unfailing love.
For He does not willingly bring affliction or grief to the children of men

Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it?
Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamites and good things come?
Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord.

Streams of tears flow from my eyes...
My eyes will flow unceasingly, without relief,
until the Lord looks down from heaven and sees.

The waters closed over my head, and I thought I was about to be cut off.
I called on Your name, O Lord, from the depths of the pit.
You heard my plea: "Do not close Your ears to my cry for relief"
You came near when I called you, and you said,

"Do not fear"