One of the hardest things to do

(harder than anything you could go through yourself)

...trusting God with someone you love

especially (although the best), when that is the only thing left for you to do for them.

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“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.”

-C.S. Lewis

“Sobbing with tears,

sobbing without tears,

tears without sobbing,

smiles with tears.

Numb.

Welcome to the ministry of love.” 
-John Piper 

“I have held many things in my hands,
and I have lost them all;
but whatever I have placed in God's hands,
that I still possess.” 
-Martin Luther 

"Bear not a single care thyself,

One is too much for thee.

The work is mine, and mine alone,

And thine is...

Trust in Me.” 

-Unknown

"A battered reed He will not break off,

and a smoldering wick He will not put out" 
-Matthew 12:20

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