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Hard To Say Goodbye
Last week, my wife and I had to make the most difficult decision a pet owner ever faces. Our loving companion for the last sixteen years was exhibiting behavior unlike any we had ever seen from him. Roopie was quickly becoming an angry old dog, not the lovable bundle of energy we had always known.Read more…The Big C Means Courage Not Cancer
One bright and sunny, September morning, in 1999, my wife, Bobbie, was expecting to take delivery of her brand new refrigerator-freezer. We both went shopping for the appliance earlier that week. She was excited and in an exceptionally good mood.Read more…Everybody Hurts
Love and life are funny things that often bewilder us, creating feelings within our body that are not really caused by any physical injury. Take heartbreak for example. Heartbreak is not a pain caused by a physical injury to the heart.Read more…How to Handle Grief and Loss With Your Children
Dealing with any kind of loss with a child or children is a task that most adults dread. Best friends can move away, a car can kill a favorite pet, a schoolmate can be killed in an auto accident, and Grandma may die suddenly are all situations that parents can face. In any case, a parent should handle the loss with dignity and quality so the child learns how to deal by comparison.Read more…Why Individuals Have Surivior Guilt
Survivor guilt is the guilt that is carried by individuals who survive the death of loved ones or other members of a cultural, national, religious or other group that they belong to.It is felt along with feelings of unworthiness, a sense of being undeserving, an unconscious need to join their loved ones in death, an inability to fully engage in life and all the good things it has to offer them, feelings of depression or sadness, lack of motivation, a sense of inertia, and a feeling that they are somehow bad for being alive.The guilt is harbored both consciously and unconsciously.Read more…Some Tips On Getting Over Your Past
Your past is a tricky thing. It has shaped you, made you who you are today. If it was difficult or painful, you can't just cut yourself off from it.Read more…Haunted: Burying The Ghosts Of Lost Love
Late at night, as you read quietly, before you fall off to sleep...During a busy afternoon as you run through a crowd, hurrying back to your office or home....Sitting in a movie theater, a restaurant or waiting for the light to turn...Read more…Loss and Grieving: A Healing Process
Life is a cycle and part of this cycle is loss. With loss comes grief which is a natural part of the healing process and which will eventually lead to recovery. There are a lot of causes of loss.Read more…Missing In Action
"We lost our dear loved one the other day; he was eighty seven years old and had a full and rich life."I had to pause mentally for a moment when a friend shared this thought during a conversation. Her emotion expressed a state of remorse with shadows of hopelessness.Read more…Why Does My Loved One Have to Suffer?
Not long ago, I visited a man whose wife was dying of cancer. He retired early in life, so he and his wife could travel the country on his Harley Davidson motorcycle. He was a big man, and his wife was tiny.Read more…Grief 101
"The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others."-Shirley MacLaineThere comes a time in everyone's life where they experience a loss. Sometimes it's the loss of a person or an animal while other times its the loss of one's health, a dream, or a way of life.Read more…Death - an Overerated Paradox
Death is an overrated paradox – for when we are actually besieged by sorrow of bereavement or loss, we, by determining the source of such a breed of sadness and mourning, render it helplessly corrupt, sad or perverse. Death is a causeless inevitability, pronounced in every man’s structure, and the most susceptibly basest of fools to the most complex of brilliantine intellects, accede to the ex cathedra of death that is as resolute and as impending as the better reckless jaunts of life. It is not even an issue, and though some fear, some brave, some escape the concept, nobody can ignore the practice.Read more…Then I Dreamed!
"Then [I] dreamed..." (Genesis 28:12).About four months after our son died I wrote a booklet titled GRIEF.Read more…Enough, Lord!
"He came to a broom tree, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. `I have had enough, Lord,' he said. `Take my life...Read more…Now There Was a Night
"Now there was a day ... and Satan also came among them" (Job 1:6 NKJ); "... The day of grief and desperate sorrow ...Read more…Darkness into Light
"...Though I fall I will rise again! When I sit in darkness, the Lord himself will be my Light...Read more…Bruised Reeds and Smoking Wicks
"A bruised reed He will not break, and smoking flax He will not quench..." (Isaiah 42:3 NKJ).Jesus didn't--and doesn't--go by our theory of survival of the fittest.Read more…Sitting on Our Ash
I dearly love the Book of Job. The year our son died I had lost two other basic relationships, all three deaths within months of each other, and all suddenly with no time for goodbyes. I found my comfort in the Old Testament, Job and Isaiah especially.Read more…The Wine of Astonishment
"Now there was a day..." (Job 1:6); "Thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment" (Psalm 60:3 KJV).Not long after our son died I read something that gave me enormous comfort.Read more…Thank You Anyway, Father!
"You shall not fear the terror of night..." (Psalm 91:5a NIV).His scream on that black December night severed my heart into bleeding halves that wept red agony.Read more…
Most Recent Articles in Grief Loss category
- The Gift - By: Angelique Ellerman
This article was written to help those who are dealing with the loss of a loved one. Death is just another stage in life, one that can be learned from and help each of us to evolve. Know that you are not alone and it will get better with time. - Crisis - How Will You Cope? - By: Tamara Johnson
Summarizes the grief process after crisis. Outlines the natural grief process that leads to healing. - Acknowledging and Supporting the Difficult Life Transitions of Those We Care About - By: Chellie Bonebrake
From the end of a relationship with a person, house, or job to the diagnosis and treatment of a serious illness, we all encounter struggles in our lives. A hug, a laugh and a supportive message from someone who cares go a long way in providing comfort to a heavy heart. Many people are unable to be with a friend or loved one as they adjust to a difficult situation. - For The New Widow - Three Things To Remember - When The Moon In The Sky Hits Like An Axe In The Eye - By: Linda Della Donna
It’s the end of the day, the end of the week, the end of the month.The cat’s in the cradle and the dog’s in the yard.Or, is it the other way around? - If Drinkin' Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will) - By: Earl Erickson
A song written by R. Beresford and H. Sanders and sung by country music’s living legend, George Jones , entitled, If Drinkin’ Don’t Kill Me (Her Memory Will) , has a much different meaning for me today. - Balloons... To Release, Detached And Let Go? - By: K Amber
The past is over and nothing can be changed. We cannot accept the happening in the past so we tend to cling hard to that experience. We just let our future and present move fearing the past would repeat. - Communicating With Deceased Loved Ones - By: Yvonne Perry
My interest in the Afterlife and spirit communication began in earnest in 2000, when my life literally fell apart. There was an entity that began to manifest to comfort and console me as I was going through my divorce. Whenever I cried, this loving presence touched me in a warm and motherly way. - What Does God Have To Say About Death? - By: Jennifer C
The day we are born, we begin to die. It’s a given fact of life, yet one which we spend much of our lives trying to ignore or defy.The writer of Ecclesiastes wrote “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die .. - I Will Never Die! - By: Yvonne Perry
That is a bold statement, but you see, I no longer believe in death. My body may demise and my spirit may depart from it, but who I am (my essence) will NOT die.Some people view death as a fearful tragedy, the end of a life, a sad finality. - Life on the Other Side - By: Yvonne Perry
If only we knew what was on the Other Side of this life! Knowing for sure what lies ahead might make a difference in how we view dying and aging and how we handle the death of a loved one.Much of our fear about death is rooted in delusions and distorted ways of looking at life and the world around us.