Category: More Than Mended

A Living Loss

Life is full of loss. Living losses often come in the form of broken relationships with those we love. Divorce, job loss, injury, illness, or lost relationships, can all leave us heartbroken and wondering what happened. The problem with a living loss is the lack of finality. We hope that what is lost will be restored, what is broken will be mended, or that what has gone so terribly wrong will once again be made right. But while we may cling to hope, grief still accompanies loss, even when it mingles with hope. Sharing my own experiences with living loss, I hope to encourage you in your journey to heart healing.

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Go Ahead – Be Angry but Sin Not

Grief. It can be a bizarre journey on an emotional roller coaster. And grief can come in all seasons of life and stem from many different causes. In their book, On Grief and Grieving, anger is the second stage of grief mentioned by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler. I once read that anger and frustration almost always stem from a sense of injustice or entitlement. But you know, friend, death is unjust because we were not created for death.

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Faithful Tears

The most common stage of grief usually experienced first is denial. Denial lasted a long time as I walked through that first really hard loss in my life. My brain and my heart just could not accept that brain damage would permanently alter the child I once had and that I would never again have the little boy that I took to the hospital on that spring day in May 1992. I felt I could not hold to my faith and still grieve and acknowledge the reality of Justin’s brain damage.

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More Than Mended

I’m Sheila, and this is where I hope to talk about those hard things that often catch us by surprise and leave us breathless, bewildered, and broken. Things we don’t often talk about beyond brief regards or awkward condolences, like death, rejection, broken relationships, abuse, and all the terrible consequences of our sin and/or the sin of others against us.
Whether we acknowledge it our not, those are some of the very things that shape who we are and how we see the world around us. They impact our relationships and our loves.

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