When someone is taken before we are ready to say goodbye, it is easy to feel betrayed by the timing of the loss. There is this kind of heartbreak roped to grief that doesn\u2019t announce itself loudly; it just lingers. It says, \u201cWhy now? Why them? Why like this?\u201d Even when you still believe in God, your belief may struggle under the weight of such heaviness. You want to trust in divine timing, in a God that has his reasons, but nothing about their absence feels divine, nothing about their absence feels justified. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And yet, with time, you will come to understand that there is even something sacred about what we cannot explain. God did not take them away from you; he received them. With the same tenderness that crafted their soul, he welcomed them into rest\u2014not as an ending, but as a homecoming, as a sacred reunion. And while that truth will never erase the ache, the pain, it does reframe the mystery \u2014 they are not gone. They are not lost. They are fully seen. They are fully held. They are at peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is an excerpt from the book Let Go, Trust God<\/a><\/em> by Rebecca Simon. Find the book here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When someone is taken before we are ready to say goodbye, it is easy to feel betrayed by the timing of the loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20459495,"featured_media":1179629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"thoughtcatalog_call_to_action":"","tc_post_redirect":"","thoughtcatalog_is_sponsored_content":"0","footnotes":""},"categories":[603229949],"tags":[],"anchortext":[],"posttemplate":[],"adcampaign":[],"coauthors":[603230893],"class_list":["post-1179628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mental-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/fgodagrief.jpg","author_meta":null,"photo_credit":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20459495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1179630,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179628\/revisions\/1179630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1179629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179628"},{"taxonomy":"anchortext","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/anchortext?post=1179628"},{"taxonomy":"posttemplate","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posttemplate?post=1179628"},{"taxonomy":"adcampaign","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adcampaign?post=1179628"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1179628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}