death sucks

My conclusion after working last week was this:

Death sucks.

Anyone who tells you otherwise is a fool.

Death does not make sense.

Except sometimes.

But mostly not.

And, no matter what we tell ourselves,  God does not make it "all better."

We do take comfort in putting God in the middle of death.

We believe in a narrative that God has a plan.

We believe that God will provide us patience and courage.

We believe that God will be with us in our mourning and our grief.

And sometimes it feels like all those things are true.

And sometimes it feels like our belief is myth.

but
Belief is important.

Faith in the power and presence of a god gets us through.

However, at the end of the day -

death {still} sucks

because we {still} have a hole where someone used to be.