Finding Faith After Loss
Grief is something that changes the way we look at things around us, and not just minor things, for some it actually opens a gateway to view life with a different lens. Loss is something that makes you feel vulnerable, the moment where you just can’t help yourself even if you want to. And the questions like why did this happen? And, God why me? Keeps roaming in your mind! Heartbreak can sometimes be also the opportunity to reshape your life. Nothing but faith can help console your soul and thoughts that yes this might be God’s way of changing my life’s direction. Kari Borgman has beautifully captured this emotional and spiritual phase of life in his book One Year.
The book, One Year is not just a book about the emotions of a person, but it is a book that teaches the readers a lot about spirituality! It is about rediscovering faith when everything around you seems to be shattering and faith is the only ray of hope that you keep on holding to. It takes readers through the raw stages of grief loneliness, anger, confusion, and finally, renewal. Each page of Kari Borgman’s book tells the readers that your loss might not be the end to your world but a starting to the new chapter of life where you’ll flourish and embark on a new journey!
It’s not at all easy to recover from a loss, and even though people say that we feel what you’re going through but no one actually does, because “the pain of lose” can only be felt by someone who has actually experienced it! Kari Borgman shows her readers through her book that how holding onto faith when nothing in your life seems to make sense can be difficult but, in the end, everything pays off! Her book shows that sometimes one may feel like, there is no point of staying true to faith when this is what life has to offer us but that does not mean that you are abandoning God, that means that you feel and it is human to feel sad and upset!
The way Borgman portrays the phase where one starts to question everything around themselves is heartwarming. Because, many of us, at least once in our lives have been in that place. Borgman shows that everyone has a right to question, and questioning faith does not mean committing a sin, that means you are actually concerned about it and you are refining it! Moments like quiet prayer, reflection and the raw emotions shows how she started building or repairing her relation with God, bit by bit. This lesson about the rebuilding of faith is one of the most important lessons that Kari wants to convey to the readers.
The Book’s name “One Year” is not something that she keeps just accidentally, but it is the title that symbolizes the time period of Kari Borgman’s slow and beautiful healing process. This book is a prove that change whether in our behavior or faith does not come overnight, it comes with staying consistent and true to yourself. Borgman shows the readers that with every season came something new. Something new to learn, a challenge, and even moments in which she found clarity! The Book One Year is something that portrays how beautifully time has the power to heal us. The sharpness of pains softens and eventually turns into questioning everything around you which ultimately turns into having firm believe in faith and trusting in God’s plans which provide us the strength to move forward.
One of the most important message in the book “One Year” is how love helps us to come out of grief and find our way towards faith. Borgman realizes that even in the hard times or when you go through experiencing loss, love never disappears it stays there and all you have to do is to acknowledge it! The love for the person she lost does was not her weakness but it was her strength which after acknowledging she make herself happy from the shared memories and sweet moments of expression which eventually transformed into something great!
In her journey, love becomes the language through which faith speaks again. Family, friends, and the quiet presence of God fill the empty spaces that loss created. The message is clear: love endures beyond death, and through it, we find the courage to believe again.