Family & Food

Family & Food

Navigating Life’s Losses(1)

Ecc 3:6 NKJV

"A time to gain, and a time to lose."

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GODS Word neither ignores nor minimizes the painful realities of life. Inevitably, we and our loved ones will experience life’s losses: illnesses, aging, death, divorce, disability, loss of independence, unemployment, financial reversals, etc. Today's culture prepares us for gain, but not for loss; to dance, but not to mourn (Ecc 3:4). Major losses throw us into unchartered territory. So, we need to understand the dynamics of our loss in order to help us through it and back to living life again.

Life-changing loss begins

with bereavement- the agony of feeling that something or someone indispensable to US

has been ripped away, leaving us feeling robbed. Then comes grief-searing emotions of overwhelming sorrow that are often accompanied by anger, distress, confusion, and

helplessness.

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Next, we move into the mourning stage-and begin to express our grief and loss. This is the "hard work" stage of tears, memories, and heartrending spasms of weeping that shake us to our very core. We feel guilt and remorse over what we have said or done or not said or done.

And our heartache gives those around us opportunity

to respond, offering the comfort and reassurance we need to begin healing. This is God's protocol for healing broken hearts. At 120 B.C., the Israelites beloved leader died-leaving

behind him a grief-stricken nation (Dt 34). And God allowed them thirty days to

moum their loss and to comfort one another before resuming the business and affairs of life. So take the time you need to do the work of mourning your losses because Jesus said,

*Blessed are they that mourm. for they shall be comforted° (Mt 5: 4)