Psalm 23 gives us two tools: the rod that protects and the staff that keeps us near. Neither works if we run. God's heart for us doesn't change, even when everything else does.

Tragedy doesn't come with answers. What it does demand is a choice: will we trust the heart of God, or decide we know better? That question determines everything about how we walk through what comes next.

Grief keeps reminding you of what's gone. If you're walking alongside someone in that kind of pain right now, this one is for you. Not platitudes. Just a few honest thoughts on how to sit with someone whose suffering is too great for words.