"Greif does not change you, it reveals you."
John Green
The past 2 ½ years I’ve come to more fully understand the meaning of the word grief. Through my personal experiences, along with class research and conversations with others, I’m just starting to understand grief. I think John Green put it quite well when he wrote – ‘grief does not change you, it reveals you’. There have been times where I did not like the girl who it revealed, and other moments when I was in complete awe of the strength I found.
When it comes to experiencing pain, or any type of feeling, I am not a fan of the phrase and idea: “I know how you feel”. Even if you had been in the exact same accident with the exact same injuries and time in the hospital, that does not mean you know how an individual feels. We each feel pain differently, based on our personal experiences. This contributes to the fact that no one can know exactly how you are feeling. Well, that is, no one except our Savior Jesus Christ. He is the ONLY person who can say ‘I know how you feel’ to each and every one of us and know how to help us, because He truly understands. In cases of abuse, He knows. In cases of infidelity, He knows. In cases of death and loss, He knows. When it comes to divorce and broken hearts, He knows. The list could go on and on, He has experienced it all. There is no pain he did not suffer, no sorrow he did not feel. Although I do not understand how that is possible, I know that He truly ‘knows how you feel’.