Experiencing Closure
Day 236

By now you have recognized that everyone grieves in different ways and for different amounts of time. Closure is also an individual experience. Closure in grief is when a particular struggle, emotion, or problem either ends or gets to a place where you are free to move on from it.

For some people closure occurs over a long period of time. For others, it occurs at specific moments. Closure can come through the words or comfort of another person, an important memory, a letter, a graveside visit, a Scripture, a new understanding, financial help, or a service to another. God will provide a healing closure for you, and He will bless you in that closure. Pray for closure and look for it.

In this biblical account, God blessed the widow with financial provision and by enabling her to keep her sons at home when she feared she could not.

"My husband is dead, and you know that he revered the Lord. But now his creditor is coming to take my two boys as his slaves." Elisha replied to her, "How can I help you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?" "Your servant has nothing there at all," she said, "except a little oil." Elisha said, "Go around and ask all your neighbors for empty jars. Don't ask for just a few. Then go inside and shut the door behind you and your sons. Pour oil into all the jars, and as each is filled, put it to one side."

She left him and afterward shut the door behind her and her sons. They brought the jars to her and she kept pouring. When all the jars were full, she said to her son, "Bring me another one." But he replied, "There is not a jar left." Then the oil stopped flowing. (2 Kings 4:1-6)

This financial provision was enough to pay off all her debts and to bring an end to the desperate economic crisis that her husband's death introduced.

God will help you to find closure for the many struggles you face in grief. Keep in mind, though, that God provides for each person in different ways. He will meet your needs in His time and by His perfect plan.

Holy Spirit, bring me to the point of closure and peace so that I can think of my loved one with a smile on my face and reassurance in my heart. Amen

 

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Good Grief
Day 225

Good grief is accepting the fact that your loved one has died, accepting the sorrow and pain, and knowing there is more to come. Good grief is getting through the days, the months, and, eventually, through the years.

Dr. Erwin Lutzer says, "There was a young woman who saw me for counsel. She was madly in love with her husband, and he died unexpectedly. She was contemplating suicide. She said, 'I simply cannot live. I want to die, and I want to be with him. That's all that I care about.' So I explained to her that what she needed to do was to get through the first year. I promised her that the sun would shine again.

"She saw me several months later, and she said, 'You know, the sun is beginning to shine. I have now discovered I can make it without him.' And she's on her way. Grief takes time but you will find it gets better, and you must recognize that it is a period of transition to a brand-new kind of life for you."

Your life will never be the same again, but you will get through the grief. The grieving process is a transition into your new life.

"He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age" (Ruth 4:15).

Lord, I did not want a new life. I liked my old one just fine, but I understand that going back is not an option. Therefore, Lord, I will move forward. Teach me to seek You and embrace You and grow in this new life. Amen.

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JUST A MEMORY AWAY

I'm no longer by you side,
but there's no need to weep,
I've left sweet recollections
I'm hoping you will keep.

Eternal joy and memories
stay in our hearts forever,
Strenthening our special bond
that parting cannot sever.

Now its time to journey on,
so let your faith be strong,
For I am in a better place ...
I'm home where I belong.

And if times of loneliness
bring sorrow and dismay,
Don't despair, for I am there ...

JUST A MEMORY AWAY

I Love You, Danny
I Miss You, Danny
I always will ...

Face Today With Me Our Lord and our God. Make us all Thou wouldst have us. It is not circumstances that need altering first, but yourselves, and then the conditions will naturally alter. Spare no effort to become all I would have you. Follow every leading. I am your only Guide. Endeavor to put from you every thought of trouble. Take each day, and with no backward look, face the day's problem with Me, and seek My Help and guidance as to what you can do. Never look back and never leave until the morrow that on which you can get My Guidance for today. Lead me in thy truth, and teach me; for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day. Psalm 25:5 I Love You, Danny, I Miss You, Danny, Always will ...

I am with you Always

      

MEMORIES

 

Life stands still and aches with memories.

Memories that aches so deeply of a precious life cut too short.

My son Patrick who left me behind to grieve

a loss that has no words, no definition,

no explanation, no concept.

I am left only with sorrowful feelings that linger deep

within my wounded soul reminding me to hold on to those

bittersweet memories.

These memories which came from a life that I love

so dearly and treasure.

God, help me to keep those powerful memories

because today I cherish them more than my own existence,

for it is my memories of my son Patrick, who is my life and

my light until the end.

 

Dedicated to my son Patrick Christian Barbosa

((((Susie))))  Keeping you and your family in my thoughts & prayers and I pray for justice for your handsome Daniel.  God Bless.  (((((Susie)))))

"The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not be in want. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he restores my soul. He guides me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake." - Psalm 23:1-3

GOD OF HOPE , COME TO ME. HELP ME TO KNOW THAT YOUR HOPE IS ALIVE IN ME AS iOFFERKINDNESS, FORGIVNESS, AND TENDERNESS TO OTHERS.i SEEK THE INNER CALM THAT COMES FROM TRUSTING IN YOU. /GIVE ME THE COURAGE TO BE AWARE OF YOUR     HEALING PRESENCE.    MAY i TRUST THAT sT.  jUDE WALKS WITH MNE IN THE TIMES OF TROUBLE, AND INTERCEEDS ON MY BEHALF  ST. JUDE, FILL MY HEART WITH HOPE. AMEN