What does God say about grief?
The Good News: God will never abandon us during our times of grief — he will always provide us with love and hope. “He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
How does grief affect spirituality?
And grief can also can affect your sense of spirituality. Whatever your spirituality, losses can really test those beliefs. One of the issues in grief is to reconnect, maybe even rebuild, a faith or a philosophy challenged by loss. Sometimes that means looking at your faith in a deeper way.
What is the purpose of mourning and grief?
The ultimate goal of grief and mourning is to take you beyond your initial reactions to the loss. The therapeutic purpose of grief and mourning is to get you to the place where you can live with the loss in a healthy way.
How does grief affect personality?
The personality of the bereaved. Studies have found that people with certain personality traits are more likely to have long-lasting depression after a loss. These include people who are very dependent on the loved one (such as a spouse), and people who deal with distress by thinking about it all the time.
How to deal with the grief of death?
First, we must recognize that grief normally passes through different stages and is expressed by a variety of emotions, which is all dependent on the person mourning and the circumstances of their loss. Be sensitive and wise with how you comfort. Second, sometimes it takes longer for a person to heal than you might expect.
Is there an intangibility to grief after miscarriage?
Beyond the immediate emotional attachment that a mother can have toward the child in her womb, there is an intangibility to this grief which makes it especially unique. Another participant reported that despite her very real and profound grief following a miscarriage, she felt “silly” about expressing her anguish.
What does the Bible say about the loss of death?
This is, in many ways, the deepest loss of death – since the deepest meaning of life is fellowship with God. Similarly, Paul reminds the Ephesians that they were once dead apart from Christ but now have been made alive (Eph. 2:1-3).