“For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven. … A time to cry and a time to laugh. A time to grieve and a time to dance.” —Ecclesiastes 3:1-4 (NLT)
Questions that are normal and natural in seasons of grief:
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• Some people blame God when it’s
“People ruin their lives by their own foolishness and then are angry at the Lord.” —Proverbs 19:3 (NLT)
• Some people blame God when it’s
“His wife said to him, “Are you still trying to be godly when God has done all this to you? Curse him and die.” —Job 2:9 (TLB)
• Some people blame others when it
“My advice to you is this: Go to God and confess your sins to him.” —Job 5:8 (TLB)
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“Then Jacob tore his clothes and dressed himself in burlap. He mourned deeply for his son for a long time. His family all tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “I will go to my grave mourning for my son,” he would say, and then he would weep.” —Genesis 37:34-35 (NLT)
Rick and Kay Warren Interview (6 Stages of Grief)
• Stage One: Shock (Job 21:6)
• Stage Two: Sorrow (Psalm 13:1-4)
• Stage Three: Struggle (Matthew 27:46)
• Stage Four: Surrender (2 Corinthians 1:8-10)
• Stage Five: Sanctification (James 1:2-4)
• Stage Six: Service (2 Corinthians 1:3-4)
“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.” —2 Corinthians 1:3-4 (NIV)
Helpful things to do when you’re in a season of grieving:
1) Look for, and
“Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. But someone who falls alone is in real trouble. …Three are even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken.” —Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 (NLT)
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2) Focus on, and
“Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Then you will experience God’s peace…” —Philippians 4:6, 7 (NLT)
“Joseph named his older son Manasseh, for he said, “God has made me forget all my troubles and everyone in my father’s family.” Joseph named his second son Ephraim, for he said, “God has made me fruitful in this land of my grief.” —Genesis 41:51, 52 (NLT)
3) Have faith that God can somehow
“Even though you planned evil against me, God planned good to come out of it. This was to keep many people alive, as he is doing now.” —Genesis 50:20 (GW)