Words for the Journey

Tips for Letting Go of Grief and Stepping into Kingdom Living 

  Someone recently said to me, “Yeah it’s easy once you don’t have to go through anything any longer.” Was that person ever wrong! When you lose someone that you have deeply loved—when you lose the only person that ever loved you unconditionally—that pain is always there.

This will be the fifth holiday season without my daughter Nina here in the physical sense. I find that I am far enough along in my grief to find memories to smile about now, but still close enough to remember those first few years and the piercing stab of pain in my heart that went along with them.

It's so strange, living in this new reality where the world hasn't stopped just because my pregnancy has. When you lose someone, you feel like the galaxy should just shut down, at least for a day, to acknowledge the death of something/someone huge. For example, I think mail shouldn't be delivered and computers should stop working.

Dr. Gloria and Dr. Heidi Horsley invite special guests to the taping of The Open to Hope Show, they discuss how they coped and went on to find hope after the loss of their spouse.

During the happiness of Spring a leaf emerges.The sounds of the birds coax its little life to blossom.It continues to bloom as the verve of the season buzzes around,A leaf peeks further out to catch a glimpse.The warming of the air draws its veins towards the sun.

By: Marty Tousley, CNS-BC, FT, DCC 

After Nicole Alston’s infant daughter died she looked for ways to help other grieving parents. She founded the Skye Foundation. Association of Death Education and Counseling

Miscarriage grief has always been a minimized and invalidated ‘hidden grief’. My first miscarriage occurred when I was 27 years old. I had been blissfully married for five years and was elated to be pregnant. However, when I had a miscarriage during my third month of pregnancy, my elation turned to despair.

Dr Stephen Fleming talks about parenting after the death of a child. Although a child had died there are still other children surviving to parent, what does that look like? Association of Death Education and Counseling

We all grieve. However, while grief is a universal phenomenon, its expression and duration varies cross-culturally and individually.