by Gary Roe | Anger management, Anxiety, Depression, Emotional pain, Families and grief, Fear, Forgiveness, God and Grief, Grief and Loss, grief depression, grief pain, Grief recovery, grief support, Hope, loss of loved one, Love, Purpose and meaning, Regret, Relationships, Sadness, spiritual fatigue, Spiritual growth, Spiritual questioning, Spiritual suffering, Suffering and Pain
People have asked me for more info about my upcoming book Walking with God Through Grief. In response, I thought I would share with you a portion of the book’s introduction… WHAT THIS BOOK IS ALL ABOUT Loss is hard. The death of someone we love can be...
by Gary Roe | Anxiety, divorce recovery, Emotional pain, Fear, God and Grief, Grief and Loss, grief depression, Grief recovery, grief support, Healing, Healing from the past, Hope, Loss of a Child, Loss of a friend, Loss of a parent, Loss of a sibling, loss of a spouse, loss of loved one, Peace, Relationships, Spiritual growth, Stress Management, Suffering and Pain, Worry
Sometimes, I seem to be doing better, and then I get hit again. The grief comes and smacks me, seemingly out of nowhere. A song. A familiar place. A picture. A certain aroma. A sudden memory. Anything can set me off. The grief wells up inside me so quickly. It feels...
by Gary Roe | Anger management, Anxiety, Death and dying, Depression, divorce recovery, Emotional pain, Faith, Fatigue and Exhaustion, Fear, Grief and Loss, grief depression, grief pain, Grief recovery, Grief shock, grief support, Healing from the past, Hope, loss of loved one, Peace, Purpose and meaning, Relationships, Spiritual growth, Spiritual suffering, Stress Management, Suffering and Pain
I’m sad and distraught. I’m angry and frustrated. My world has become dark. It’s almost as if hope has departed somehow. How can I find hope again? When a close, painful loss strikes, a domino effect of change begins. The initial loss spawns many others. Like ocean...
by Gary Roe | Anger management, Anxiety, divorce recovery, Emotional pain, Faith, Families and grief, Family relationships, Fear, God and Grief, Grief and Loss, grief depression, grief pain, Grief recovery, Grief shock, grief support, Hope, Loss of a Child, Loss of a friend, Loss of a sibling, loss of a spouse, loss of loved one, Peace, spiritual fatigue, Spiritual growth, Spiritual questioning, Spiritual suffering, Suffering and Pain
Where is God in all this? Yes, I know He’s with me. He’s with everyone. He’s everywhere. He can do anything. He cares for me. I know all these things, but somehow, I don’t feel them. I wonder if I feel much of anything. I guess I’m still angry with Him. Or perhaps I...
by Gary Roe | Anxiety, Faith, Families and grief, Fatigue and Exhaustion, God and Grief, Grief and Loss, grief depression, grief pain, Grief recovery, grief support, Hope, Loneliness, loss of loved one, Purpose and meaning, Spiritual growth, Spiritual suffering, Stress Management, Worry
I feel confused. I know what happened. I know I miss them terribly. I know that I’m hurting, and I feel alone in my grief. But I don’t know what life looks like now. I don’t know what’s ahead. I keep trying to figure things out, but my mind ends up going in circles....
by Gary Roe | Anxiety, Death and dying, Decision-making, Depression, Emotional pain, Faith, Fatigue and Exhaustion, Fear, God and Grief, Grief and Loss, grief depression, grief pain, Grief recovery, Grief shock, Healing from the past, Hope, loss of loved one, Peace, Relationships, spiritual fatigue, Spiritual growth, Spiritual questioning, Spiritual suffering, Stress Management, Suffering and Pain
I’m scared. All this has made me think of my own mortality. I’m going to die. We’re all going to die. None of us escapes this. That’s terrifying. And it could happen anytime, anywhere, to anyone. To me. I wonder if I’m getting paranoid. I don’t feel like myself at...
