In reply to Linda A Bruner.

Pastor Harrison mentions two places, Ms. Bruner. First, Jesus Himself, moments before He raised Lazarus from the dead, wept--*grieved*. Because He, the Creator, did not *make* death. But He came precisely in order to "unmake" death, for us, by going through it. And secondly, Pastor H. refers to 1st Thess. 4:13, where Paul says *not* that we do not sorrow/grieve, but that we don't sorrow "as others who have no Hope."
Other passages and examples can be added. For instance, in 2nd Samuel 12, when the son of David's adn Bathsheba's adultery dies on the 7th day, David gives a confession of Hope: "I shall go to him, [the child] but he shall not return to me." Grief, most certainly! But still, Hope.
The emotion of sorrow and grief is, itself, not sin. We most certainly, in our corruption, will sin in our grief, just as we sin in our anger, and in our happiness, and in our contentedness, etc. But God Himself created our emotions in the Beginning, and declared them, along with everything else He made, "very Good."

On behalf of all us pastors, I apologize for when we haven't taught as clearly or as widely as we ought to have. (And I'm sure what I've said here isn't nearly enough or clear enough!) We have our own blind spots, and, frequently, our dear Lord teaches us about these by straining us through the sieve of trial and grief ourselves. Pray for us!