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What We Need To Do During Grief

Time: Time alone; time with others whom you trust, who will listen when you need to talk. Sometimes it can take months and years of time to feel and understand the feelings that go along with loss. Many may never recover from their grief.

Rest: RELAXATION-EXERCISE-NOURISHMENT-DIVERSION: You may need extra amounts of things you didn't need before like: more hot baths, afternoon naps, a trip, a "cause" to work to help others any of these may give you a lift. Grief is an exhausting process emotionally, if you sit around and do nothing but think about it, it is almost guaranteed that you may feel more exhausted. Volunteering may help you feel better to know that you are needed and appreciated.You need to replenish yourself in some sort of hobby or physical activity. A simple walk around the block after dinner works wonders. Follow what feels healing to you and what connects you to the people and things you love. If you are the person who gives all the time, remember that it is your turn to receive love and support from those around you. Please allow people to show their sympathy in their own way. Crying is not the only way to show sympathy.

Security: Shortly after the loss try to have someone in the family or a financial professional to help you sort out and reduce stressful financial decision in your life. Allow yourself to be close to those you trust. Getting back into a routine helps. You may need to allow yourself to do things at your own pace.

Hope: You may find hope and comfort from those who have experienced a similar loss. Knowing some things that helped them, and realizing that they have recovered and to see that time may help give you hope that sometime in the future your grief will be less raw and painful.

Caring: Try to allow yourself to accept the expressions of caring from others even though they may be uneasy and awkward. Helping a friend or relative also suffering the same loss may bring a feeling of closeness with that person.

Goals: For a while, it will seem that much of life is without meaning. At times like these, small goals are helpful. Something to look forward to, like playing tennis with a friend next week, a movie tomorrow night, a trip next month helps you get through the time in the immediate future. Living one day at a time is a rule of thumb. At first, don't be surprised if your enjoyment of these things isn't the same. This is normal. As time passes you may need to work on some longer range goals to give some structure and direction to your life. You may need guidance or professional counseling to help with this.

Small Pleasures: Do not under estimate the healing effects of small pleasures as you are ready. A beautiful view of the daily sunsets, a walk in the Park, cooking your loved ones favorite meal are small steps toward regaining some sort of comfort in life itself. Do allow others to share loving memories and funny stories of your loved one with you.

Permission To Backslide: Sometimes after a period of feeling good, we find ourselves back in the old feelings of extreme sadness, despair, or anger. This is often the nature of grief, up and down, and it may happen over and over for a time. It happens because as humans, we cannot take in all of the pain and meaning of death all at once. So we let it in a little at a time.

Even medication used to help people get through periods of shock under a physician's guidance, may prolong and delay the necessary process of grieving. We cannot prevent or cure grief. The only WAY OUT is TRHOUGH GRIEF.

NOTE: Grief Recovery To The World Ministry and its affiliates never recommend people to get ON or OFF Doctor prescribed medication. That is at the descretion of the bereaved and their family to decide.

Some information from Good Grief

God Has a Plan for Your Life

While you may not understand the twists and turns of life, you can be sure of one thing: the same God who created you, loves you. God's personal promise to you is one of extreme hope and potential (Jer. 29:11). No matter what failure you have experienced, you can learn how to make right choices at every juncture in your life.
In God Has a Plan for Your Life, Dr. Stanley explains that there is no such thing as coincidence, luck, or good fortune. God is sovereign, and He has a course that He wants you to follow. You can live each day with a sense of hope and assurance that whatever comes your way has passed through God's omnipotent, loving hands.

How to Let God Solve Your Problems

You may be in the midst of an emotional hurricane, wondering, Can anything good come out of this situation? Or you may be stumbling through the aftermath of a physical or financial crisis, fearful that you'll never get back on your feet.
In How to Let God Solve Your Problems, Dr. Stanley demonstrates how God allows times of trial for a number of reasons:
· To adjust your priorities
· To purify and prepare you for greater service
· To grant you the experience of His comfort
Whether your hardship is the result of sin, unwise choices, or simply the consequences of living in a fallen world. God still has a plan for your life. He has not forgotten His promises, and He will guide you through your difficulty to victory!
GOD'S SOLUTIONS for YOUR LIFE The Keys to Overcoming Life's Trials (two books in one volume) Author Charles F. Stanley
Other books highly recommended: Author Charles F. Stanley; In Step with God and Landmines in the Path of the Believer.

Relying on the life-changing power of Jesus Christ to heal our wounded hearts
Do you feel restless and frustrated? Is anxiety eating away your joy or insecurity threatening your peace of mind? These problems may by symptoms of emotional wounds that need the healing touch of Jesus.

The Source of My Strength is a moving and personal look at the power of Christ to comfort those who hurt and to free those who are oppressed. Sharing his own journey through emotional pain, Dr Charles Stanley offers biblical principles that help you
· Overcome pain, insecurity, frustration, loneliness, and alienation
· Understand how emotional burdens constrict and confine your choices in life
· Confront painful memories of the past
· Find healing and hope in the promises of God

If you long to live fully and freely every day, this practical guide can help you discover your liberty in Christ.
No matter who we are today, we are poor-or lacking-in some way. We are captives to the memories of the past and the limited expectations we have for our futures. And unless we are willing to deal with the painful experiences that life brings our way, the pain becomes a burden and wound of the heart. Today is a great day to ask the Lord Jesus to take off your heart the heavy load you are carrying.
THE SOURCE OF MY STRENGTH Author Charles F. Stanley

DR. CHARLES F. STANLEY is founder and president of In Touch Ministries, whose IN TOUCH radio and television ministry is broadcast around the world in sixty languages. He has also been the senior pastor of the 15.000-member First Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, for more than thirty years. Dr. Stanley received his bachelor of arts degree from the University of Richmond, his bachelor of divinity degree from Southwestern Theological Seminary and his master's and doctor's degrees from Luther Rice Seminary. He has twice been elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention and is the author of many books, including the New York Times bestseller Finding Peace, God is in Control, Seeking His Face, Walking Wisely, When the Enemy Strikes, and Success God's Way.

Tune in daily to The Word 100.7 FM and listen to Dr. Charles F. Stanley

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