Get over it?

The next time someone tells me to get over my grief I'm going to tell them to get behind me in Jesus name. I can and do grieve and it is healthy to do. Besides grabbing the ice cream and shopping to drop methods of overcoming grief, it is really important to try other healing methods of facing the grief we experience. There are several alternatives to consider like keeping a diary, writing on paper or talking to a skilled counselor about the feelings of grief.

Grief is so versatile, moving from anger to sadness to joy, and to anxiety to depression. No one can handle their grief alone-no matter if we journal or use the help of a therapist, we need the Holy Spirit of God to help us on a deep level to work out grief, especially compound grief (multiple or back to back losses). God is good and faithful and He will not allow us to grieve more than we can bear.

I would also encourage you, Reader to take grief as it comes, don't hide it but let it come out timing your expression of it for an hour or two and then put it down for next time so as not to become overwhelmed. Grief is to be experienced and not survived and endured.

Learn the lesson that grief is not bad, but a part that makes us acquainted with our own humanity-remember Jesus wept.