The Storms of Life
"God of all healing counsel! He comes alongside us when we go through hard times,
and before you know it, he brings us alongside someone else who is going through
hard times so that we can be there for that person just as God was there for us."
2 Corinthians 1:3-4, The Message
"Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep."
--Romans 12:15, NRSV
and before you know it, he brings us alongside someone else who is going through
hard times so that we can be there for that person just as God was there for us."
2 Corinthians 1:3-4, The Message
"Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep."
--Romans 12:15, NRSV
Letting Go Ritual
"Ordinary people forgive best if they go at it in bits and pieces, and
for specific acts."
—Lewis B. Smedes
Forgive & Forget:
Healing the Hurts We Don't Deserve.
for specific acts."
—Lewis B. Smedes
Forgive & Forget:
Healing the Hurts We Don't Deserve.
A ritual is a series of focused
actions taken with a specific goal in mind.
In this case the goal is to let go and forgive.
Use this process to analyze, specify and release a hurt, thought,
injury or issue in your life.
actions taken with a specific goal in mind.
In this case the goal is to let go and forgive.
Use this process to analyze, specify and release a hurt, thought,
injury or issue in your life.
Practices of Love and Forgiveness
Create A Garden of Love and Forgiveness
Send an E-card of Love and Forgiveness
Write a Letter of Love
Create A Garden of Love and Forgiveness
Send an E-card of Love and Forgiveness
Write a Letter of Love
Making Mud PiesWhen faced with desperate situations -- like some people in Haiti, who literally eat dirt because there is nothing else -- remember that God promises deliverance from exile and renewal in the transformation of the new creation in Christ.
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Living in Anxious TimesWhen we belong to God, we are saved in
hope—because nothing will ever separate us from God. We are never alone. We need not be afraid. |
Landscapes of GriefNone of us will escape our own painful
journeys through these landscapes. We may try to take detours around them or be carried over them or hide from them using our favorite avoidance strategies. But loss and the ensuing collapse of our assumptions about how our lives would or should be is a universal human experience. |
Grief at the Holidays When everything around us focuses on joy and home and relationship, those
of us in pain feel it more acutely. Yet the holidays come, and those of us looking at the empty chairs of loved ones past--those of us with hurting lives—need to find a way through. |