The Journal

Reflections on Scripture, story, beauty, grief, faith,
and the ordinary places God meets us.

Erika Bain Erika Bain

Grief. Part Three: Grieving the Life You Thought You’d Have

There is a gap between expectation and reality that often doesn’t get spoken about. We sit in that gap, looking back at what we thought would be and forward into what is. No one prepared me for sitting in that gap, and the grief of realizing that life didn’t turn out the way I thought it would.

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