A time to weep

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Those who suffer death, divorce or lost relationships must go through a grieving process.
We need help to cope with these things and to understand the grieving process is making it a bit easer for us.

God created us for relationships; He made us to need, to give and receive, to create. We suffer many kinds of losses – spouse, friend, child and loss of those with and for whom we have hopes and dreams. In the working aria we suffer the lost of a job that leave us with the feeling of loss of worthiness and security.

When you are faced with the death of a spouse you will feel the ripping of one’s flesh – We feel calm, celebrating weepy angry

When faced with divorce you can add rejection, failure, bitterness blame and condemnation.

The typical grieving process average from 18 months to two years, and must be worked through and it is not the same as to fill the empty place of the lost one.

The stages of grief

1. Shock – Nature’s insulation

You will experience feelings of disorientation and confusion, knotted stomach and the lost of appetite. You will have very strong feelings of disbelief, nervous laughter and memory blocks.

2. Denial – In this stage a sufferer might.
Leave rooms and possessions untouched. Will avoids necessary tasks to put things in order. They may also refuse to go back to the graveside. People in this stage may also avoid talking to others about ‘what happened’.

3. Fantasy – normal responses might be…

To get up and expect loved one to be there. In some cases they will start talking to the one who is gone as if still there.

4. Grief Release - a healthy ‘letting go’ of emotions

Let the tears flow freely – does not matter if you are male. Men do cry
Never say don’t cry or don’t worry to a grieving person.
 

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More things about people in grieving –
Grieving is not a lack of faith – After you have suffered for a little while the God of all grace who called you to his eternal glory in Christ will Himself perfect confirm, strengthen and establish you 1 Peter 5:10

A grieving person don’t have to feel bad if they cannot rejoice about a loved one who is in heaven, nor is it making a bad Christian from them.

To keep grief inside will cause ulcers, headaches, depression, released the grieving process, healing will follow.

Don’t cut your emotions off and file your sorrow.

Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh Luke 6:1
Weeping may last for the night, but a shout of you comes in the morning. Ps 30:56
 
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Thanks for this post, such wonderful advice.

I've been the recipient of being told not to cry or not get upset:cry: it made me feel awful:( .

Also when you feel angry when you're grieving:mad:and you're made to feel guilty for it:(

If only more people understood the grieving process and that it is not only loss through death.

Laura:pink:
 
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Thank You Altya, really GREAT Post.

Isaiah 53: 3,4 says,

He is despised and rejected by men, a Man of sorrow and acquainted with grief.... Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows.

The way in which people respond to loss affects them for the rest of their lives. Loss must be seen in the correct perspective so people experiecing it can understand it and deal with it. Your right people who experience loss must learn to move on by going through the grieving process.

Jesus experienced loss and grief, so He could identify with us and die in our place. We will not be able to avoid loss and grief in our lives, but we must remember that God is with us through it all.

Amen

Cherylq :bow: :bow:  
 
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Today at 01:37 AM LittleLauraLost said this in Post #9

Thanks for this post, such wonderful advice.

I've been the recipient of being told not to cry or not get upset:cry: it made me feel awful:( .

Also when you feel angry when you're grieving:mad:and you're made to feel guilty for it:(

If only more people understood the grieving process and that it is not only loss through death.

Laura:pink:

I hope that you did not listen to the 'not cry' advise but that you cried your heard out. Its not good to cut off your emotions.
 
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Today at 02:37 AM cherylq said this in Post #10

Thank You Altya, really GREAT Post.

Isaiah 53: 3,4 says,

He is despised and rejected by men, a Man of sorrow and acquainted with grief.... Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows.

The way in which people respond to loss affects them for the rest of their lives. Loss must be seen in the correct perspective so people experiecing it can understand it and deal with it. Your right people who experience loss must learn to move on by going through the grieving process.

Jesus experienced loss and grief, so He could identify with us and die in our place. We will not be able to avoid loss and grief in our lives, but we must remember that God is with us through it all.

Amen

Cherylq :bow: :bow:  
This happened to me. I did not grief the lost of my father, three brothers and my sister, because I had to be the strong one for my mother. I filed my emotions – but God is helping me to go through a belated process now. I still don’t know how to cry, when I feel the deep pain inside of me I cut it off.
 
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A person in grief will also need a listening ear when recalling memories. Grieving is a slow process, don’t rush it. A lady walk up to me the other day asking me if it’s ok if she uses my name in her testimony. Her husband died a few years ago and I was her only Christian friend. She was unsaved at that time. She said the greatest help I gave her was to listen – she said she felt so bad that she kept on repeating herself, but I did not mind at all. I still listen. I told her that time it does not matter she can tell me the same story until it doesn’t hurt her so badly anymore. What she needed to talk about so much was the way her husband died.

After a time grief will be gone but sorrow will still remains.

When ministering to those who grieve, stand with them, listen to them love and hug them include them in activities but don’t insist. Don’t let them ever feel they are a burden to you and you are doing a ‘job’
 
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My experience with bereavement has been that it helps to be reminded of the peace and comfort to be found in the Lords promises. The Lord is our source of strength in time of trouble and His grace is a more than sufficient to sustain us trough even the most difficult of trials, but we must exercise the faith needed to appropiate ourselves to His promises.
 
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Those who suffer death, divorce or lost relationships must go through a grieving process.
We need help to cope with these things and to understand the grieving process is making it a bit easer for us.

God created us for relationships; He made us to need, to give and receive, to create. We suffer many kinds of losses – spouse, friend, child and loss of those with and for whom we have hopes and dreams. In the working aria we suffer the lost of a job that leave us with the feeling of loss of worthiness and security.

When you are faced with the death of a spouse you will feel the ripping of one’s flesh – We feel calm, celebrating weepy angry

When faced with divorce you can add rejection, failure, bitterness blame and condemnation.

The typical grieving process average from 18 months to two years, and must be worked through and it is not the same as to fill the empty place of the lost one.

The stages of grief

1. Shock – Nature’s insulation

You will experience feelings of disorientation and confusion, knotted stomach and the lost of appetite. You will have very strong feelings of disbelief, nervous laughter and memory blocks.

2. Denial – In this stage a sufferer might.
Leave rooms and possessions untouched. Will avoids necessary tasks to put things in order. They may also refuse to go back to the graveside. People in this stage may also avoid talking to others about ‘what happened’.

3. Fantasy – normal responses might be…

To get up and expect loved one to be there. In some cases they will start talking to the one who is gone as if still there.

4. Grief Release - a healthy ‘letting go’ of emotions

Let the tears flow freely – does not matter if you are male. Men do cry
Never say don’t cry or don’t worry to a grieving person.

Amen
 
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