God says the Holy Spirit is our healer. The scriptures teach that the Holy Spirit is our comforter. As a society, we used to think that we could bury our toxic waste and that it would go away. But since then, we have discovered that it leaks into our water table, contaminates crops, kills animals, and affects us as human as well. In a sense, buried grief does the same to us.
Time can help in the healing process, but time alone doesn t heal a thing.
Buried pain leaks into our emotional system and wreaks havoc there. It distorts our perceptions of life, and it taints all our relationships. Now, it s true that there are other causes to our sadness and depression, and we need to check these out, but many times it goes back to losses in our life. Our faith in Christ does not eliminate our need to grieve or to feel the emotions of sadness. But our faith in Christ can give us the courage to face our feelings and to comfort us and give us hope in the midst of our grief.