Grief

Unnecessary Commotion

Mark 5:38-39 Have you noticed how some people get spun up over the seemingly smallest things! They go from zero to sixty emotionally in an instant. You try to reason with them, but it is almost as if they can’t hear what you are saying, their emotions get in the way. To an outsiderContinue reading “Unnecessary Commotion”

Bad News

Mark 5:35 I hate bad news! I try to avoid watching the news on TV because they only talk about bad news. I think it makes my world too large. I become aware of so many things over which I have no control or influence. And since they only talk about the worst things,Continue reading “Bad News”

Reactions

Proverbs 17:25 Every parent has days when they wish their children were grown, off to college and out of the house. Parenting is a very tiring profession. It demands more of you than any other job. The hours are longer and the pay isn’t worth talking about. You never get sick days, and paidContinue reading “Reactions”

Waiting Room

Proverbs 15:30 Have you ever had to wait in a hospital waiting room while someone you love is going through an operation? Those moments can be the longest moments on earth. You see the doctor walking down the hallway toward you, and you examine their face for the smallest hint that things went well.Continue reading “Waiting Room”

Laughing at a Funeral

Proverbs 14:13 The expression of one emotion does not mean that other, even seemingly contradictory emotion, does not exist. Our emotions are very transient. They can change in a moment. But a change from one emotion to another does not mean that there is a permanent shift away from the first to the second. EmotionContinue reading “Laughing at a Funeral”

Pain, Lonely Pain

Proverbs 14:10 We are all unique individuals who live with others who share many things in common. As we experience the sorrows and joys that inevitably come to us as human beings living in a fallen world, there are many common factors to those experiences. These common factors to human experience tie us together. TheContinue reading “Pain, Lonely Pain”

In grief, all words lose their volume. I am struck by how inadequate words can be to a heart that is caught in the grip of grief. The one in grief desperately wants words that will heal, but knows there are no words. The one walking along side the one in grief desperately wants toContinue reading “Grief”