Category: Grief

A friend who is struggling to come to terms with the loss of her husband after 60 years of marriage confessed that she has many “bad” days.  This set me thinking about what we...

“Weeping may remain for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning” Psalm 30 verse 5 Does grief go away? It really depends on what we mean by that question.  Seven years on after...

How many sermons, talks and lectures I have sat through in my lifetime?  How many books have I read and how many discussions have I engaged in? How much of all that information do...

An almost instinctive reaction in times of disaster is to cry out “Why?”  In cases of natural disaster it leads to a plethora of scientific explanations, as after the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004. ...

Because I am not good about dealing with “stuff”, I have been putting off writing about it.  However, it is something we all face when a loved one dies.  What do we do with...

While preparing to write this blog, I read again the beautiful and familiar passage in Ecclesiastes 3, verses 1 to 8: “There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under...

“Be still, and know that I am God” Psalm 46:10    “He leads me beside still waters” Psalm 23:2 For an introvert like me, solitude is important.  As much as I enjoy (and need)...

“Give thanks in all circumstances” (1 Thessalonians 1:18) Throughout the Bible, we are exhorted to give thanks. And not only when things are going well, but also in every circumstance. And yet, there are...

Isaiah 35:1 “The desert and the parched land will be glad; the wilderness will rejoice and blossom.” It is Easter as I write this, a time when we remember that the joy of Easter...