Three things will last forever -faith, hope, and love – and the greatest of these is love (1st Cor. 13:13 NLT)
“Happy Valentine’s Day, Baby” I sang as I entered the house carrying a balloon tied to a box of candy. My husband grinned up at me from his hospital bed. I placed the box of [...]
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No one could have been more amazed than this devout atheist when I was first in AA and discovered through the exercises discussed in the book Getting to Know God, that there was a God, a good God, a loving God, even a joyful God. As an atheist, as I looked at the
world, I thought [...]
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According to Webster’s New World Dictionary grief is defined as “intense emotional suffering caused by loss, disaster, misfortune, etc.; acute sorrow; deep sadness.” Mourning is the expression of grief.
We usually think of grief as affecting our feelings and emotions, but it really affects every part of us. We may feel things such as [...]
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It is both a wonderful and terrible aspect of God’s love that when we lose someone we love, the deep pain we feel can draw us closer to God, the author of life and death. As Christians all our relationships are a triangle, with one another and God at the head. Our deepest selves are [...]
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Elizabeth Kubler Ross wrote about the five stages of catastrophic loss in her book,” On Death and Dying”. While she was speaking to the terminally ill patient, most people have found that the stages she defines work as well for almost any kind of grief.
While people argue as to whether these stages are really true [...]
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