Welcome to 15 Minutes in the Word with New York Times best-selling author Joyce Meyer.

On today's program, Joyce will be teaching from her series, overcoming grief, and loneliness.

Encountering loss is an experience we'll all face at some point in time.

It may be the death of a loved one or the severing of a close relationship.

Any kind of traumatic event can bring heartache.

It's vital that we work through the pain and find new life ahead.

Today, Joyce wants to help us on our journey to healing and remind us that even when we don't

feel it, Jesus is closer than we can imagine.

Now, here's Joyce with the series, Overcoming Grief and Loneliness.

Let's look at Deuteronomy 34, verse 8.

It says, and the Israelites wept for Moses, and you have to remember,

Moses was a very, very, very important person in the lives of the Israelites.

And the Israelites wept for Moses. Let's get a clear picture

here. They're weeping. They're crying. They're mourning. And they wept for him in the plains of

Moab 30 days. Then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.

Now, I'm not suggesting in any way that if you lose a loved one that you've got 30 days to get over it.

But to be honest with you, according to the law, back then, they were given 30 days to mourn, and then by law they had to go on. See, sometimes the best thing you can do when you're hurting is just keep going.

Just keep moving.

I remember one time something really major had happened with one of my kids, this is back when they were teenagers,

and I was hurting so bad that I felt like I couldn't hardly stand it.

And I had a conference that weekend. And, you know, when you're committed to do something like

this, you don't just get to stay home because you've got a problem. And so I would do the meetings

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