My heart goes out to the families of those awaiting the news of the fate of love ones from the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. I cannot begin to imagine what it must be like for them. How would I be if I were them waiting for what appears likely to be bad news?
I think there are few things worse than the loneliness experienced while waiting for what one expect to be bad news. There is desperation of soul that no-one can know the depths of. Do you hope ? Do you give up and grieve ? What do you do?
I don’t have answers. I am not sure there are any.
What helps me in times of grief is hanging on to God a bit like that expressed in Psalm 31:7 ‘I will be glad and rejoice in your love, for you saw my affliction and knew the anguish of my soul’.
I may not feel better. Things may not be better. And they may never do. But the belief that God knows me, knows what I am going through and knows the outcomes somehow sustains me.
A prayer:
Dear God, please draw close to all those people waiting for news of their loved ones. May they know the comfort that you alone can bring.