Heartbroken and weary, the women who had followed Jesus returned to their homes to observe the Sabbath. What do you do when it’s time for worship, but all you want to do is weep?
Easter is usually one of my favorite holidays. But I am dragging this year. I haven’t made the kids Easter baskets. I haven’t cooked a single thing. I haven’t even picked my clothes out for tomorrow.
I imagine the sisters at the cross felt similarly. All week long they were prepared to celebrate one thing, and ended the week feeling like their world had been turned upside down.
I know, simply from scrolling my timeline, that I am not the only person suffering from a broken heart this week, so my questions are these:
How do you prepare for worship?
How does grief impact our worship? How does worship impact our grief?
How can we better serve those who are celebrating and those who are mourning?
The Gospel According to Gabrielle 
WORSHIPPING FROM A PLACE OF PAIN
David acknowledges and expresses His pain before the Lord, and then takes his sorrow and turns it into a cry to the Lord for help, for deliverance, for mercy…and then it’s like he finds himself- in the cry to the Lord for help- declaring Who God is. Be real with yourself. Do what David did.
Acknowledge your pain before the Lord. Express your pain to Him. Cry out to Him in your pain.
And then from the place of your pain, lift your voice and sing to the One Who holds your tears in a bottle.
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