27 results for tag: Discussions in Grief


Discussions in Grief: Praise

Grieving involves new emotions and considerations often too many to numbers. When you find yourself in overwhelming grief, you likely feel buried and lost. In this series, we slowly and compassionately look at one aspect of grief at a time from a biblical perspective for the newly grieving mother. Click {here} to read past posts in this series.  Imagine yourself in a pit. You are struggling to see and breathe, you are terribly lonely, and it looks as if there is no way out. This is a picture of what grief feels like to most. I often picture myself covered in the dirt and muck of my pit. How will I ever be able to look up again? Will my arms ...

Discussions in Grief: Surrender

Grieving involves new emotions and considerations often too many to numbers. When you find yourself in overwhelming grief, you likely feel buried and lost. In this series, we slowly and compassionately look at one aspect of grief at a time from a biblical perspective for the newly grieving mother. Click {here} to read past posts in this series.  I don't know what comes to mind for you when you think of the word “surrender”, but for me I picture the end of a long battle and the losing side has nothing left. Surrender happens when they give up and hand themselves over to the mercy of the enemy. Surrender happens in defeat, when you have ...

Discussions in Grief: Searching

Grieving involves new emotions and considerations often too many to numbers. When you find yourself in overwhelming grief, you likely feel buried and lost. In this series, we slowly and compassionately look at one aspect of grief at a time from a biblical perspective for the newly grieving mother. Click {here} to read past posts in this series.  "I just want to know why!" I sobbed into the phone. I was standing in the NICU talking to a friend on the phone after being told my daughter would die. This friend had lost her baby girl 2.5 months ago. Through her tears, she told me something I'll never forget. She said, "There will never be a good ...

Discussions in Grief: Tears

Grieving involves new emotions and considerations often too many to numbers. When you find yourself in overwhelming grief, you likely feel buried and lost. In this series, we slowly and compassionately look at one aspect of grief at a time from a biblical perspective for the newly grieving mother. Click {here} to read past posts in this series.  Tears are a natural part of the grieving process. They are an outward expression of internal pain, anxiety, sadness, stress and frustration. They can come on suddenly while making a meal, talking to friends, or sitting alone in the stillness of night. For me, it came on when I was driving down the road ...

Discussions in Grief: Anger

Grieving involves new emotions and considerations often too many to numbers. When you find yourself in overwhelming grief, you likely feel buried and lost. In this series, we slowly and compassionately look at one aspect of grief at a time from a biblical perspective for the newly grieving mother. Click {here} to read past posts in this series.  Anger. It is a part of the grief process. When we grieve, we are supposed to experience anger... at least that's what the "experts" tell us. I do not consider myself an angry person, so when the son my husband and I desired so deeply was born still nine days before his due date, I wasn’t ...

Discussions in Grief: Hiding

Grieving involves new emotions and considerations often too many to numbers. When you find yourself in overwhelming grief, you likely feel buried and lost. In this series, we slowly and compassionately look at one aspect of grief at a time from a biblical perspective for the newly grieving mother. Click {here} to read past posts in this series.  "You are a hiding place for me; you preserve me from trouble; you surround me with shouts of deliverance."-Psalm 32:7 We walked toward the car, heads hung low, hand in hand. We had just learned that our baby, at 20 weeks gestation, was no longer breathing and after two hours speaking with a ...

Discussions in Grief: Suffering

Grieving involves new emotions and considerations often too many to numbers. When you find yourself in overwhelming grief, you likely feel buried and lost. In this series, we slowly and compassionately look at one aspect of grief at a time from a biblical perspective for the newly grieving mother. Click {here} to read past posts in this series.  I don’t know the circumstances surrounding your sorrow. Whether your loss occurred many years ago or very recently, the ache you carry in your heart is agonizing. There is nothing that can prepare you for the devastation of losing a child, and there are no words that can take away the pain that ...