{"id":24252,"date":"2026-06-25T07:57:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openbiblemessage.org\/?p=24252"},"modified":"2026-06-25T10:24:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T15:24:23","slug":"holding-the-rope-reflections-on-grief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openbiblemessage.org\/es\/2026\/06\/holding-the-rope-reflections-on-grief\/","title":{"rendered":"Holding the Rope: Reflections on Grief\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:24px\">Grief has no sense of propriety or manners. It&nbsp;doesn&#8217;t&nbsp;knock,&nbsp;it&nbsp;doesn&#8217;t&nbsp;wait for a&nbsp;convenient moment or respect the walls you have carefully built around yourself. It&nbsp;simply barges in. Without warning,&nbsp;it breaks down the front door of your carefully erected&nbsp;emotions, delivering&nbsp;a gut punch before you realize what is happening.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the last few years, I have known this kind of grief repeatedly: the loss of my mother,&nbsp;my father, my childhood home,&nbsp;my place in a church&nbsp;where I pastored&nbsp;for over three&nbsp;decades, close friendships that quietly faded or ended suddenly, and the&nbsp;particular ache&nbsp;of watching my kids step into a world that no longer includes our home&nbsp;as their center. Taken alone, each loss would be enough to undo a person. Taken&nbsp;together, they do not simply wound \u2013 they rearrange you.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grief&nbsp;has a way of finding me at night.&nbsp;The house goes&nbsp;quiet;&nbsp;the day releases its grip, and that is when it comes. As I lie down&nbsp;to&nbsp;sleep, my mind begins to&nbsp;wander:&nbsp;down old paths and winding memories, through&nbsp;the rooms of a childhood home that no longer stands,&nbsp;reviewing&nbsp;bygone days when life felt&nbsp;full and certain and\u2026joyful.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignright has-text-align-left\"><blockquote><p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#085969fa\" class=\"has-inline-color\">The well is real. The darkness is real. But so is the rope. And so are my hands.<\/mark><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The temptation in those moments is to linger there too long,&nbsp;letting&nbsp;nostalgia become a place of residence rather than a place of passing through. But&nbsp;I have learned that lingering too long in those corridors pulls me somewhere I did not&nbsp;intend&nbsp;to go&nbsp;\u2013 into caverns that echo and deepen, where the light from the entrance&nbsp;grows small and far away.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The image that best captures my grief is a&nbsp;well. Deep, dark, and cold.&nbsp;There are days when I feel myself swinging from a rope inside it, suspended between the&nbsp;world above and the darkness below. I could let go. The fall would be easy, even&nbsp;tempting in its finality. And if I am honest, I have let go before;&nbsp;I have fallen. I have felt&nbsp;the rope&nbsp;slip&nbsp;through my hands and the darkness&nbsp;rise&nbsp;to receive me,&nbsp;and&nbsp;finding&nbsp;my&nbsp;way&nbsp;back out was neither easy nor swift.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There were long seasons spent at the bottom of&nbsp;that well, searching for the rope in the dark, wondering if I still had the strength to climb,&nbsp;wondering&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;more than&nbsp;once&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;whether&nbsp;I would find my way out at all. I did, but I carry the&nbsp;memory of that bottom with me. It is part of why I hold on so carefully now.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The well is real. The darkness is real. But so is the rope. And so are my hands.&nbsp;And I have discovered that the well, as terrifying as it is, has given me something&nbsp;unexpected: a way to see my grief, and in seeing it, to hold some small measure of&nbsp;control over it. I do not have to fall. I can choose to descend. Slowly, deliberately, both&nbsp;hands wrapped around the rope. When grief comes, as it always does, I lower myself&nbsp;into it with intention. I&nbsp;stay&nbsp;for a moment. I let it be what it is. And then I&nbsp;climb&nbsp;back out. I&nbsp;decide when I&nbsp;go&nbsp;in;&nbsp;I decide when I&nbsp;return. That agency, small as it may seem, has been&nbsp;the&nbsp;difference.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignleft has-text-align-right\"><blockquote><p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#b37209\" class=\"has-inline-color\">&nbsp;&#8230; numbness should be a visitor,&nbsp;not a&nbsp;permanent resident. It is a bridge, not a home.<\/mark><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the early months, I did not need this kind of discipline. Numbness arrived like&nbsp;a first&nbsp;responder. Merciful, efficient, doing what I could not do for myself. It carried me through&nbsp;the shock, the arrangements, the condolences, the strange and relentless busyness&nbsp;that trails in the wake of death like a shadow. But&nbsp;numbness should be a visitor,&nbsp;not a&nbsp;permanent resident. It is a bridge, not a home.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, on the other&nbsp;side of it, I am meeting the grief properly for the first time. Feeling its&nbsp;full weight, looking at it without the cushion of shock between us. Now I find myself truly&nbsp;reckoning with the absence&nbsp;of all&nbsp;I\u2019ve&nbsp;lost, feeling&nbsp;its&nbsp;weight.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is heavier than I expected. It is also more honest.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am learning, too, to stop treating the past as the only place where joy lives.&nbsp;For a time, I&nbsp;moved through my days as though happiness&nbsp;was&nbsp;something that had already&nbsp;happened&nbsp;to me. Stored in rooms I could no longer enter, in voices I could no longer&nbsp;hear. But I am slowly beginning to believe something different: that life is still full, that&nbsp;the&nbsp;future is not a lesser&nbsp;thing,&nbsp;that joy is not behind me but ahead. There is the promise&nbsp;of it&nbsp;coming&nbsp;yet in the morning, in forms I cannot yet imagine.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignright has-text-align-left\"><blockquote><p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#e0a400\" class=\"has-inline-color\">I am learning, too, to stop treating the past as the only place where joy lives.<\/mark><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And through all of it, beneath all of it, I am learning the weight of a promise I have carried&nbsp;for years without fully understanding it: \u201cBlessed&nbsp;are&nbsp;those who mourn, for they will be&nbsp;comforted\u201d&nbsp;(Matt 5:4 NIV).&nbsp;It is no longer a verse, but&nbsp;a reality I am living inside of. The comfort is not&nbsp;loud or dramatic. It comes quietly, the way dawn comes, gradually&nbsp;and then all at once.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The faithfulness of God is real. And in the end, when the darkness of the well presses&nbsp;close and my arms are tired and the bottom feels nearer than the top\u2026&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026that faithfulness is the rope I am holding on to.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:28px\"><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:40% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"568\" height=\"851\" src=\"https:\/\/openbiblemessage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/OBC_Board_Headshot-Khan.jpg\" alt=\"Gary Khan\" class=\"wp-image-17962 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/openbiblemessage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/OBC_Board_Headshot-Khan.jpg 568w, https:\/\/openbiblemessage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/OBC_Board_Headshot-Khan-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-arial-font-family has-custom-font wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:15px\"><strong><em>Gary Khan<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;was born in Trinidad and moved to the United States at age twenty to pursue his calling to ministry, primarily serving at Desert Streams Church in Santa Clarita, California.&nbsp;After more than thirty years in pastoral leadership, Gary now serves as Executive Director of Operations for Marketplace Chaplains, where he helps provide care and support to employees and their families in the workplace.&nbsp;Gary is the author of the&nbsp;devotionals&nbsp;<em>Reset<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Greater<\/em>, as well as&nbsp;<em>That&nbsp;Didn\u2019t&nbsp;Turn Out the Way I Thought&nbsp;<\/em>and his&nbsp;upcoming book,&nbsp;<em>Father Stories.&nbsp;<\/em>Gary and&nbsp;his wife,&nbsp;DeLaine,&nbsp;have three children and live in Southern California.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grief has no sense of propriety or manners. 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