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Grieving an Unfulfilled Dream
The reality of living overseas is that you are going to grieve multiple things, deeply. Anyone moving out of their passport country has a dream. Some want to help HIV patients o…
An Empty Ocean and the 10 Things We Must Remember About Grief
Walking alone at a park, a friend of mine saw a woman busily walking towards her, dictating something into her phone. The woman looked earnest and concentrated. She came closer and closer, and as h...
7 Reasons You Need to Build Your Grieving Muscles
Those of you who lift weights will be familiar with “lower body” and “upper body” days. The thinking is that by targeting the lower body one day, you can rest the upper body, allowing the muscles t...
A Liturgy for Those with an Inconsolable Homesickness (read by Doug McKelvey)
You Tube reading of a prayer for those suffering inconsolable homesickness from Every Moment Holy (Rabbit Room Press) ©2017
By: Douglas Kaine McKelvey Length: 4:04
...A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss
An expanded edition of this classic book on grief and loss―with a new preface and epilogueLoss came suddenly for Jerry Sittser. In an instant, a tragic car accident claimed three generations of his...
Outlawed Grief, a Curse Disguised
Living abroad is an amazing adventure, but it comes with some baggage. And sometimes, the baggage fees are hidden, catching you by surprise, costing more than you planned. You thought you had...
A lament for the griefs we don’t have time to grieve
April and May are usually a grieving season for mission communities. This year it has been particularly rough. Schools closed without warning. People evacuated with a day’s notice…
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Who cares for the carer when they're bereaved?
What happens to the people who lose a relative and their identity as a carer too?
These Illustrations Totally Nail How Difficult The Grief Process Is
Grief is a profoundly difficult experience that most people will have to endure at some point. And while this doesn’t make dealing with grief any easier, it does help to know that you’re not alone ...
7 Ways to Teach Your TCKs to Process Grief
By Lauren Wells The topic of TCKs and grief is one that circulates often on online forums about TCKS, and there is a good reason for this: we know that TCKs deal with a significant amount of loss. ...
Tear Soup: A Recipe for Healing After Loss
If you are going to buy only one book on grief, this is the one to get! It will validate your grief experience, and you can share it with your children. You can leave it on the coffee table so othe...
Holiday Grief: An Unwelcome Guest Deserving of Radical Hospitality
Grief is an emotional, mental, and spiritual wound — and this is precisely because it is a relational wound.