When grief comes

When grief comes

by Joel Howard

When grief comes, and it comes to us all

do we stay put and rise up tall 

too good to repent and to dignified to bow low?

Have we no knowledge of how grief should go?

For when Job lost all, his possessions, his pride

when not even his daughters and sons were alive

He arose and stripped himself of all dignity

shaving his head and tearing his coat

and falling to the lowest of lows

He worshiped a God who deals us our blows,

says what He says and knows what He knows

Directs all our steps and knows where we go

Job acknowledged life isn't a game 

of Santa Clause making us happy again

No, life is in God's hands, who gives and takes

Grief should be a process, not a quick-fix we fake

Grief should be a process that we all undertake