Learning from Grief

Thursday’s Reflection

LIVING WELL through loss involves learning how to grieve. Grieving teaches us to live again in the absence of someone or something significant. Grieving isn’t just a time of unbearable emptiness and tears but a whole process of becoming a new person shaped by the memory of what is lost, not defined by it.

Grieving enables us to become a person who has experienced a divorce, not a divorced person. It enables us to become a person who has lost a partner, not a widow. It enables us to become a person who has experienced the loss of a job, not a loser. Grieving enables us to know ourselves who lose something when change occurs, not as people who are losers.

- Dan Moseley
Lose, Love, Live: The Spiritual Gifts of Loss and Change

From pages 26-27 of Lose, Love, Live: The Spiritual Gifts of Loss and Change by Dan Moseley. Copyright © 2010 by Dan Moseley. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Upper Room Books. http://www.upperroom.org/bookstore/. Learn more about or purchase this book.

Today’s Question

Pray for someone who is grieving. Share your reflections.

Today’s Scripture Reading

Psalm 23

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