God is there, wonderfully there, that abiding presence that hurts where you hurt, a God for losers, and what you've lost God has lost, but you can get through it because this same God will restore. After the cross came the bright morning light of Easter. And so it will be with you. But there is more to it than weeping. Grieving has to be followed by action.
Life goes on, and after most losses it can go on quite successfully.
What calamities often show us is that our foundations are too shallow. We need to dig deeper before we try to rebuild. Once in New York I heard a sermon that was prompted by a great office building about to rise in the Manhattan forest of skyscrapers. If the God of Jesus is for losers, the God of Jesus is also, and very much, for starters-over. For tomorrow we soar, tomorrow we are resurrected, tomorrow is a new day.