Welcome to today's encouragement from our Daily Bread.

Our reading titled Every Grief was written by Monica LaRose.

I measure every grief I meet.

The 19th century poet Emily Dickinson wrote, with narrow, probing eyes,

I wonder if it weighs like mine, or has an easier size. The poem is a moving reflection on how

people carry the unique ways they've been wounded throughout their lives. Dickinson concludes,

almost hesitantly, with her own solace, the piercing comfort of seeing at Calvary her own wounds reflected in the saviors,

still fascinated to presume that some are like my own. The book of Revelation describes

Jesus, our Savior, as a lamb looking as if he had been

slain. His wounds still visible. Wounds earned through taking upon himself the sin and despair of his

people so that they might have new life and hope. And Revelation describes a future day when the Savior will wipe

every tear from each of his children's eyes. Jesus won't minimize their pain, but truly see and

care for each person's unique grief, while inviting them into the new healing realities of life in his kingdom, where there is

no more death or mourning or crying or pain, where healing water will flow without cost from the

spring of the water of life. Because our Savior has carried our every grief, we can find rest and healing in his kingdom.

Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Revelation chapter 21, verses 1 through 6.

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the holy city,

the new Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for

her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, look, God's dwelling place is now

among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them

and be their God.

He will wipe every tear from their eyes.

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