Layers of Loss: Resilience in the Flood

The Many Faces of Resilience

The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and
saves those who are crushed in spirit.—Psalm 34:18

What happens when loss doesn’t come in waves, but in a flood?

Lolita’s story is one of those. She spent years navigating gender identity questions with her youngest child. Big questions, tender ones, ones that stretched her heart in every direction. During that time, her marriage began to unravel. Eventually, it ended after nearly twenty years.

And then, the unthinkable. Her youngest child slipped into another world with an accidental overdose. Her oldest was still in college, trying to make sense of it all.

There were no easy answers. No quick fixes. Just the slow, painful process of rebuilding. Of choosing life in the midst of heartbreak. Of waking up each day and deciding to keep loving, even when everything hurt.

Resilience is not the absence of pain.
It’s the decision to keep loving through it.

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