After Loss, Do We Ever Find Closure?

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This morning I sit with a simple, aching question. Do we ever really get closure. What I keep seeing, in Scripture, in Swedenborg’s theology, and in real lives soaked with loss, is that we move forward with grief rather than past it. Love leaves a mark. It always does. Jesus weeps. God stays. Swedenborg reminds us that the Lord is closest to us in states of sorrow, quietly holding us when our understanding gives out. I watch people who have lost children find one another at the same table, not fixing anything, just being together, and I think, yes, that’s it. Closure gives way to companionship. Answers soften into presence. Heartbreak exists because love was real, and those two walk hand in hand through human life. Our hearts break open, not shut. Loss becomes something we carry, something deeply human, even beautiful in its tenderness. The ministry of presence, staying, listening, being with, may be as close to closure as we ever come. And God is with us through all of it. Every step.