by Bob | Mar 27, 2009 | Grief, Grieving, Healing, Hope, Waiting, Waiting on God
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 23: Hope WaitsYesterday’s journey ended with the Woman at the Well in a dilemma. God told her to wait.So what would “hope” look like in her immediate context? Hoping in God, she would choose...
by Bob | Mar 26, 2009 | Grief, Grieving, Healing, Hope, Waiting on God
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 22: When God Says “Wait”If the grief process was a direct journey, and it is not, then we would have arrived at the half-way point on our path. Sustaining has been the first “half” of our...
by Bob | Mar 25, 2009 | Comfort, Grief, Grieving, Suffering
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 21: Finding God When We Can’t Find AnswersWhat about you? Yesterday we explored how we can journey with others helping them to move from depression, alienation, and separation to comfort through...
by Bob | Mar 24, 2009 | Comfort, Depression, Grief, Grieving, Healing, Suffering
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 20: The Presence of God in the Presence of SufferingHow do you help others to move from depression to comfort? How do you help your hurting, grieving spiritual friends to find God’s comforting...
by Bob | Mar 23, 2009 | Comfort, Grief, Grieving, Healing
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 19: Wrestling with God Can we biblically support comfort as a legitimate stage of the grieving/healing process?Wrestling with GodJacob’s wrestling match with God certainly illustrates it. Recall...
by Bob | Mar 22, 2009 | Comfort, God's Healing, Grief, Grieving, Healing, Sustaining
God’s Healing for Life’s Losses:How to Find Hope When You’re HurtingPost 18: Surviving ScarsFor those without Christ, the grief process moves from denial, to anger, to bargaining/works, to depression. For those with Christ, for those who grieve with hope, we journey...
