by Bob | Mar 18, 2009 | Grief, Grieving, Lament, Psalms of Lament
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 14: Does God Have Your Attention?When loss hits we are typically so shocked that we numb and deny. Our caring God gently urges us toward candor—honesty with ourselves. Because He knows all, He...
by Bob | Mar 15, 2009 | God's Healing, Grief, Grieving
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 13: Crying Out to GodStage one of the grieving process moves from denial to candor, stage two from angry to complaint, and stage three from bargaining and works to crying out to God for...
by Bob | Mar 15, 2009 | God's Healing, Grief, Grieving, Healing, Lament, Psalms of Lament
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 12: Your Dark Night of the Soul What about you? Yesterday we explored how we can journey with others helping them to move from anger to complaint/lament. But what about your path from anger that...
by Bob | Mar 14, 2009 | God's Healing, Grief, Grieving, Healing, Lament, Psalms of Lament, Trialogues
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 11: With Christ in the School of SufferingBiblical complaint counters unbiblical anger. Unproductive and unrighteous anger pushes us away from God, others, and personal healing. Productive and...
by Bob | Mar 13, 2009 | God's Healing, Grief, Grieving, Healing, Lament, Psalms of Lament
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 10: God Prizes Complaint!Can complaint be biblically supported? Does God really prize complaint?Complaining About Biblical ComplaintSome think not. They ask, “Didn’t God judge the Israelites for...
by Bob | Mar 12, 2009 | God's Healing, Grief, Grieving, Healing, Lament, Psalms of Lament
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 9: Can We Really Complain to God?Our healing journey has walked us down the path from denial to candor: honesty with ourselves. In a Christian approach to grieving, we can’t stop there. We must...
