The Godly Way To Grieve (with Tim Ross)

Have you ever lost something you never let yourself grieve?

Most of us think grief belongs at a funeral. But some of the deepest losses we carry are over a place we had to leave, a season that ended, or something we thought we’d have by now. And when grief has nowhere to go, it doesn’t disappear. It gets stored up, and it comes out somewhere else down the line.

In this episode, Preston sits down with his best friend Tim Ross for a tender, honest conversation about what it looks like to grieve in a Godly way. Tim opens up about the four years he begged God to let him move back to California, and about losing his dad just days before his book tour began. Preston names the lie so many of us live under, “I have to be strong for my family,” and what it quietly teaches the people watching us.

In this episode:

• Person, Place, Or Thing: why some of the deepest grief we experience is over a place
• “I’m Fine”: the crashed car trying to enter the Indy 500 on two flat tires
• Grief Isn’t Just Tears: what lament is, and why the Church rarely teaches it
• Grief And Pride: how refusing to grieve can be a way of refusing to admit how much it meant
• Grief Brings Its Own Friends: why you were never meant to mourn alone
• Jesus Wept: He knew He was about to raise Lazarus, and He cried first

Grief isn’t weakness, and maturity doesn’t mean moving on as fast as you can. The God who is near to the brokenhearted isn’t asking you to fix it today. He’s asking you to bring Him your broken heart.

You don’t have to be a hero. Pretending it didn’t hurt always creates more hurt. Give it to Him today.