Be Still and Know

 

NAPAS: TEAMS provides housing, education, entertainment, rituals (libation, meditation, prayer, marriage, baptism, communion, funeral) and counseling in urban and rural counties in Tennessee and Georgia for individuals, couples, and families.

Processing Grief

 Choose words that help move you through this season of grief.

Ouch: Growing from Grief.

 This past year has been full of loss. Living losses through appointments and relationships. Dying losses through the physical death of loved ones. These experiences have changed our reality. This became a season to re-examine how we look and function in the world. We are on another healing journey. Researchers Tedesi and Calhoun (2004) have given this experience the name “post-traumatic growth” that goes beyond resilience to improvement in our ability to function and adapt.

Rising Above Loss to Life

Throughout history human have been concerned with their mortality.   We are fascinated with death.  Death aroused anxiety, hope, clarity and inspiration. The deeper message to consider today – we have all experienced physical and spiritual losses of friends, dreams, health, children, spouses, homes, jobs.  These losses can make us feel close to death.  The good news is that we can rise above our losses and choose life.

We choose life when we grieve.  We grieve when we

1.search,

2. run,

3. embrace despair,

4. weep,

5. reorganize,

6. let go and

7. visit.

Source: Grief, Dying and Death;  John 20:1-18