Encouraging - Loss

It is not, therefore, the experience of loss that becomes the defining moment of our lives, for that is as inevitable as death, which is the last loss awaiting us all. It is how we respond to loss that matters. That response will largely determine the quality, the direction, and the impact of our lives.

Jerry Sittser, A Grace Disguised (Zondervan, Grand Rapids, MI: 2004), 17.