Find passages for what you are feeling.
Pause, breathe, and read words of trust.
Matthew 6:25-34 ↗Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?Philippians 4:6-7 ↗
In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.1 Peter 5:7 ↗
casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.
Make room for sorrow and for hope.
John 11:25-26 ↗Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.Matthew 5:4 ↗
Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.Revelation 21:4 ↗
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain any more. The first things have passed away.”
Notice the gifts of this day.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 ↗Always rejoice.Colossians 3:15-17 ↗
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.James 1:17 ↗
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation nor turning shadow.
Reflect on mercy and reconciliation.
Matthew 18:21-22 ↗Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?”Ephesians 4:32 ↗
And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.Luke 6:36-37 ↗
“Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.
Return to words that strengthen hope.
Romans 15:13 ↗Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope in the power of the Holy Spirit.Romans 8:38-39 ↗
For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,Hebrews 6:19 ↗
This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil,
Read words of presence and belonging.
Matthew 28:20 ↗teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.John 14:18 ↗
I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.Hebrews 13:5 ↗
Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”