When Someone You Didn't Get Along With Dies

Daily Devotions for Busy Lives · Oct 8, 2026 · 6m

Relief and regret arrive together, and you don't know what you're feeling. Learn what David left out of his lament for Saul, and why what he put in matters at a complicated graveside.

There's a grief nobody warns you about. Somebody you had a difficult history with dies, and you have no idea what you're feeling. Relief shows up, and it brings regret along with it. Sadness arrives right alongside anger. You want to grieve him, and you don't want to turn a man you clashed with into a saint. And the people around you complicate it without meaning to. They tell you he's in a better place, or they…