The Gift of Grieving

Mar 22, 2026  •  The Rev. Billy Cerveny

C. S. Lewis, writing after the death of Joy Davidman, described grief as love that has lost its place to land. Reading the raising of Lazarus in John 11, the sermon finds three gifts in Jesus' tears at the tomb: freedom to grieve without shame, a presence that joins us in sorrow before removing it, and the promise that death does not win. In Christ, our own hearts become the place where God's love lands.