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When my half-brother passed away from an overdose in the winter of 2024, I knew the grief would eventually come. He and I had never been especially close, but that was how our relationship worked. I’d tell him something non-essential or generic to my life, and he’d smile and nod as if he were listening. It was an unspoken agreement of sorts.
While I wanted to share more personal and relational aspects of my life with him, I knew it wasn’t safe. He had a history of substance use, abuse, and violence. Looking back on our relationship, I grieve what was and will never be.
The beautiful thing about this analogy is that while I’m still mourning the loss of my brother and my friendship with him, there is always time while we’re here on earth to restore our relationship with our Creator. We don’t have to stay in distant and estranged places if we don’t want to be in them.
In hindsight, this might seem like an odd comparison. How can my distant brotherhood with my now-deceased brother remind me of my relationship with Christ? It does in many ways. How?
