[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Thank you, Oldfriend! Your words in post #5 are very encouraging - pinging Mrs. Chief to your post!

[Sophie]

I lost my husband after a six-year debilitating brain disorder very similiar to Lou Gehrig's disease. I went through incredible rage at God because he was not healed but by the grace of God He brought me through it a stronger woman. Today I teach others on brokenness and grieving.

The real question is how can we help others go through their grief? And the answer is to let them have it. Do not try to talk them out of their pain and loss. Listen with attentiveness and compassion. Let them tell their stories---over and over again if necessary. Tell your own stories about the one who has died. Laugh and cry with them. And know for a certainty that the only way we get through loss is through grief. Without it we will never get through it and we will become as dead as the one who died.

[Sophie]

I lost my husband after a six-year debilitating brain disorder very similiar to Lou Gehrig's disease. I went through incredible rage at God because he was not healed but by the grace of God He brought me through it a stronger woman. Today I teach others on brokenness and grieving.

The real question is how can we help others go through their grief? And the answer is to let them have it. Do not try to talk them out of their pain and loss. Listen with attentiveness and compassion. Let them tell their stories---over and over again if necessary. Tell your own stories about the one who has died. Laugh and cry with them. And know for a certainty that the only way we get through loss is through grief. Without it we will never get through it and we will become as dead as the one who died.