Amaris’s Reviews > Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep > Status Update

“If we do not make time for grief, it will not simply disappear.… If we don’t face it directly it comes out sideways, in ways that aren’t always recognizable as grief… Anger, anxiety, shallowness, bitterness, addiction. Grief is a ghost that can’t be put to rest until its purpose has been fulfilled.“

“[God] does not promise to keep bad things from happening. He does not promise that night will not come, or that it will not be terrifying, or that we will immediately be tugged to shore. He promises that we will not be left alone. He will keep watch with us in the night.”

“I didn’t know how to approach God anymore. There were too many things to say, too many questions without answers. My depth of pain overshadowed my ability with words. And, more painfully, I couldn’t pray because I wasn’t sure how to trust GOD.”