Articles on Loss and Grief
Understand Loss, Navigate Grief, Encounter God in Prayer
These articles are designed to help you understand your loss, navigate through the many experiences and emotions of your grief, and aid you in your prayerful conversation with God. May the God of all peace and consolation be near to you during your time of loss and grief!
The death of a child during or shortly after pregnancy, in a sense, causes the death of the parents as well. It is not a literal, bodily dea...
“In the tender compassion of our God the dawn from on high shall break upon us, to shine on those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of ...
“For I am already being poured out like a libation….I have competed well; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith....
One of the most striking and fascinating characters in all of the Bible is John the Baptist. Yet, his last days were spent in the darkness o...
“The Lord, your God, is in your midst, a warrior who gives victory; he will rejoice over you with gladness, he will renew you in his love;...
“Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death, passion fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flas...
“God did not make death, and he does not delight in the death of the living…for God created us for incorruption, and made us in the imag...
“I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give for the li...
“For the Lord will comfort Zion; he will comfort all her waste places, and will make her wilderness like Eden, her desert like the garden ...
“You visit the earth and water it, you greatly enrich it; the river of God is full of water; you provide their grain, for so you have prep...
One aspect of the journey of grief is that certain legs of the journey tumultuous like a storm. The readings for the Twelfth Sunday in Ordin...
“If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.Set your m...