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Be Not Afraid In God's Handstoo, did all they could to support her. But it hadn’t beenenough, and now she was gone, leaving everyone whoknew her reeling in self-doubt, guilt, and grief.Years earlier, Lisa and I had lived in the same locality,and she had worked as a nurse in the hospital where mywife (also a nurse) had trained. Now we lived hundredsof miles away. We had kept in touch with Lisa over theyears, and knew she was prone to depression. But wenever would have expected this…Lisa’s funeral, like that of any suicide, was a painfulone. Still, my father, a longtime friend of her family,encouraged them not to despair as they struggled tomake sense of what had happened. Paraphrasing theauthor Romano Guardini, he reminded them that nomatter how deep our wounds, God, who always seesand understands, is endlessly merciful:To lose one’s mother is to suffer a wound to the heart.But God’s love is greater. And in light of this death,especially, it is important that we trust in God, for whenwe do, he will answer every need. He promises us in theBook of Isaiah that “as a mother comforteth her child, soI shall comfort you.”We may not be able to understand everything a persondoes, for we can see only his outward appearance, butGod, who sees the depths of every heart, can. A person104