When Grief Makes You Question Divine Timing

When someone is taken before we are ready to say goodbye, it is easy to feel betrayed by the timing of the loss. There is this kind of heartbreak roped to grief that doesn’t announce itself loudly; it just lingers. It says, “Why now? Why them? Why like this?” Even when you still believe in God, your belief may struggle under the weight of such heaviness. You want to trust in divine timing, in a God that has his reasons, but nothing about their absence feels divine, nothing about their absence feels justified.

And yet, with time, you will come to understand that there is even something sacred about what we cannot explain. God did not take them away from you; he received them. With the same tenderness that crafted their soul, he welcomed them into rest—not as an ending, but as a homecoming, as a sacred reunion. And while that truth will never erase the ache, the pain, it does reframe the mystery — they are not gone. They are not lost. They are fully seen. They are fully held. They are at peace.

This is an excerpt from the book Let Go, Trust God by Rebecca Simon. Find the book here.