A post for those who are interested in Christian perspectives. This is the second part of a series on managing our faith during a time of grief. The shaking of my soul In an earlier post. I wrote about using words from the Bible to express our own feelings. For instance, this verse from the…
A post for those with a faith perspective, Christian or otherwise, who are grieving the loss of a loved one. From what I’ve seen amongst the people I’ve met through the Living with Loss project, and my own personal experience, people with a religious background who suffer a bereavement – particularly one that is traumatic…
This post is mostly for those who have a religious faith or belong to a religion, such as Christianity. It looks at how the pain of our grief can sometimes be dismissed or minimised by others within our community of faith because of a focus on the ‘next life.’ Missing our loved ones is the…
(This post describes my Christian outlook. A lot of people who read this blog don’t particularly identify as Christians, so I like to give a little notice if a post is going to have Christian content. This one does.) The book I wrote, “A Valley Journal,” and the Living with Loss retreats are not overly…
It’s coming up to November 2nd – All Soul’s Day – a day when many of us will visit loved one’s graves to remember them, although in some traditions this might have taken place on October 31st. (“All Hallow’s Eve”, more commonly referred to as Halloween.) As Wikipedia helpfully explains, “All Souls’ Day commemorates All Souls, the Holy…
(A post from a Christian perspective.) There is a lot in the Bible about joy. “The joy of the Lord is your strength”, “happy is the people whose God is the Lord”, and so on. Many churches today emphasise these “happy messages” and sometimes equate spirituality and faith with being happy and positive. But this…
This post is a follow on to the previous article on depression, treatment, and the depressed Christian. Celebrity deaths by suicide often precipitate another round of public discussion about depression, mental illness, and the importance of talking about our problems and not just keeping everything inside. There are other topics that come out too, such…
