TAKE YOUR GRIEF TO THE LORD

Take your grief to the Lord. God created us to love because He is love. That is why we grieve. It all has to do with loss of a loved one. It can be a faithful pet or a person that we hold dear, someone we loved deeply. It can be a friend or family member. The closer we are, the harder it seems to get over the loss. Grief is a God-created outlet like crying. When we do it we are able to let out the pain we feel inside. That is healthy and necessary for recovery. Key word - recovery. God didn't create us to grieve forever. That can be worse than not grieving at all. Some reasons people don't let the grieving follow the healthy course and let it come to a healthy end is they don't feel like they really remember that person if they still aren't grieving or they feel guilty that they don't feel bad enough and so they feel the need to continue it. Also, the person might feel that they didn't really love them if they are starting to feel better so they continue to perpetuate the grief. Some people develop very strong bonds together like the wonderful romances you see in the movies and very few people really ever have and so it is so hard to get over the loss to the point that some people die soon after a loved one. Some people are afraid that their loved one will be hurt if they don't continue to grieve. And this will sound cruel but I believe it is true and not meant to hurt anyone but some people like the attention they got when their loved one died that they continue the "poor me" for attention. Some people refuse to be comforted. Like I said, grieving is necessary but so is a healthy conclusion. Just so you know, I am not a counselor, a therapist, or a shrink etc. What I am is someone who lost my parents in 1992 within six months of each other from separate illnesses; my dad lung cancer and my mother complications due to diabetes. I come from a close, loving, christian family. I loved my parents deeply and missed them more than you know. I saw them weekly and talked with my mother almost daily. I say this so that you can see I know what I am talking about. I know the Lord as many things to me. At this moment in my life, He was my Healer; the healer of my heart but I had to make the decision to draw my strength from Him. I had to decide that I would be comforted; I had to decide to go to church and if I just sat there and cried, that was OK. I had to decide to enter in to praise and worship. I had to decide to reach out to the Lord. I had to decide to talk to friends and family and comfort them. I had to decide that I will allow the Lord to bring me through to a healthy conclusion of my grief. It is not hard. The Lord will meet you in your grief right where you are and put His arms around you and help you in your time of need. If you have been hanging on to your grief for too long, now is the time to Take Your Grief To The Lord. Know he wants you to be healthy in your mind and emotions. What good are you to the living if you continue to grieve for the dead. Your loved one would not want you to wallow in grief and misery, they would want you to remember them lovingly and go on in your life and touch as many people as you can in their time of need. Get your healing from the Lord and then reach out and bless as many as you can by showing them the way to being healed and then they can also do likewise. Remember your loved one by blessing others; they would be proud of you. Be Blessed!