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A Glossary for Grief Today's Devotional Read: Luke 23:44–46 | Bible in a Year: Jeremiah 37–39; Hebrews 3 Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” Luke 23:46 When Hugh and DeeDee released their only to heaven, they struggled with what to call themselves in the aftermath. There’s no specific word in the English language to describe a parent who has lost a . A wife without her husband is a widow. A husband without his wife is a widower. A bereft of parents is an orphan. A parent whose has died is an undefined hollow of hurt. Miscarriage. Sudden infant death. Suicide. Illness. Accident. Death steals a from this world and then robs the surviving parents of an expressed identity. Yet God Himself understands such devastating grief as His only , Jesus, called to Him while dying on the cross, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit” (Luke 23:46). God was Father before Jesus’ earthly birth and remained Father when Jesus released His final breath. God continued as Father when the still body of His was laid in a tomb. God lives on today as Father of a risen who brings every parent the hope that a can live again. What do you call a heavenly Father who sacrifices His for the universe? For you and for me? Father. Still, Father. When there are no words in the glossary of grief to describe the pain of loss, God is our Father and calls us His (1 John 3:1). How does it shape your heart to realize that God remains your Father and calls you His —always? How might this thought comfort you? Dear heavenly Father, thank You for being my Father and claiming me as Your . 
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