Hi friends, and thanks for joining us for today's encouragement from our daily bread.

Our reading was written by Monica LaRose, and she titled it, Engraved Grief.

After receiving the devastating diagnosis of a rare and incurable brain cancer,

Caroline found renewed hope and purpose through providing a unique service,

volunteering photography services for critically ill children and their families.

Through this service, families could capture the precious moments shared with their children, both in grief and the moments of grace and beauty we assume don't exist in those desperate places.

She observed that in the hardest moments imaginable, those families choose to love, despite, and because of it all.

There's something unspeakably powerful about capturing the truth of grief,

both the devastating reality of it and the ways in which we experience beauty and hope in

the midst of it.

Much of the book of Job is like a photograph of grief,

capturing honestly Job's journey through devastating loss.

After sitting with Job for several days,

his friends wearied of his grief,

resorting to minimizing it or explaining it away as God's judgment,

but Job would have none of it, insisting that what he was going through mattered, and wishing

that the testimony of his experience would be engraved in rock forever.

Through the book of Job, it was engraved in a way that points us in our grief

to the living God who meets us in our pain, carrying us through death into resurrection life.

Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Job, chapter 19, verse 19 through 27.

All my intimate friends detest me, those I love, have turned against me. I am nothing but skin and bones.

I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth.

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