Grief is something no one wants to go through yet often is a familiar place to be. It can surprise us when it comes, sometimes catching us off guard years after we’ve moved on from the situation. But there’s something almost comforting in the tears… the quietness… the memories. Corruption of sin instituted grief. It’s the awareness that life shouldn’t be this way. We’re missing something. An ache of the void of constant joy. But grief is also healthy in a sense. It causes us to look for the source of comfort and joy that can fill us once again. This solution for these may strangely begin for you in today’s reading: “When the Lord saw that human wickedness was widespread on the earth and that every inclination of the human mind was nothing but evil all the time, the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and he was deeply grieved. Then the Lord said,…