Truth & Love Blog
Healing for the Holidays: Part Eight—Pregnant with Hope
Articles that offer a few quick quips, three steps, or secrets to survival rarely provide lasting help for profoundly hurting people. Healing for the holidays requires God’s curing truth for our troubled souls. True grief recovery demands Truth from the Author of life.
Healing for the Holidays: Part Seven—Clinging to God’s Rope of Hope
One of the hardest parts of healing for the holidays is the waiting. Everyone else is waiting with joyful anticipation—for the family reunion, the big dinner, opening of presents. And we’re just waiting for it all to be over.
Healing for the Holidays: Part Six—All I Want for Christmas Is Hope
For Christians, surviving the holidays is an admirable first goal, especially when memories of loss and separation flood the mind. However, our ultimate goal is not just surviving, but thriving. That’s where healing hope enters the picture.
Healing for the Holidays: Part Five—Tidings of Comfort and Joy
When we cry out to God, here’s His promise: He comes. He comes in His comforting presence.
Healing for the Holidays: Part Four—A Lament for Your Loss
Yes, your loss counts. Most importantly, your loss counts to God. That’s why He invites you, like He did the saints of old, to lament your loss. Today, let’s ponder a few basic principles of lamenting holiday loss—whatever shape or size your loss takes.
The Best of the Best Around the Christian Net: This Week’s Top Five
Linking you to the top 5 Christian blog posts of the week—posts that provide robust, rich, and relevant insights for living.
GriefShare Surviving the Holidays
People who’ve experienced the death of a loved one often face Thanksgiving and Christmas with dread. But grieving people can find actionable strategies and encouragement to make it through the 2010 holiday season at GriefShare’s Surviving the Holidays one-time seminars across the nation.
Healing for the Holidays: Part Three—Q and A About Holiday Honesty
Today, I want to give voice to four possible “push-backs” on Part Two: Give Sorrow Words. Consider these as Q/A about just how honest should we be around the holidays?
Healing for the Holidays: Part Two—Give Sorrow Words
In Part One, we saw Jesus and Paul giving us permission to grieve. Now we ask, “But what do I do with my hurt during the holidays?” Shakespeare said, “Give sorrow words.” God’s Word models that principle—we need to move from denial to candid honesty about the hurt that holiday memories can bring.
Healing for the Holidays: Part One—A Promise
Holidays… They’re “supposed” to make us think of words like thankful, merry, and happy. We’re “supposed” to associate holidays with a phrase like “Home for the Holidays!”
But… what if a loved one is not coming home this holiday season? What if death, divorce, or distance causes us to associate the holidays with words and feelings like depression, anxiety, and stress?
