Hi, I'm Susie Larson. Thanks for listening to this podcast from Susie Larson Live.

This is an encore presentation of Susie Larson Live.

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Welcome, welcome to Susie Larson Live. Always honored to get to spend this time with you. In fact,

I look forward to bringing you conversations every single day that hopefully inspire you in your faith walk, that deep in your understanding of God's Word, and that heightens your awareness of

his very real presence in your life. You know, author and pastor Jeff Mannion made this statement

the last time he was on the show. He says, we've tried to become experts at not getting hurt,

but what we need is to become experts at learning to heal. I absolutely love that. And you've maybe

heard me reference this quote before, but a number of years ago when author counselor Stephen Arterburn was on the show,

he said something I will never forget. He said, Susie, one of the greatest epidemics of the church

is unresolved grief. We've all experienced a series of hurts and losses, but have not slowed down

long enough to deal with them. What you think about that? Our hardships and our losses, they change us, but we're the ones who decide if they'll change us for the better. So I want to just give you a little opportunity today, just to process through. I want you to text your thoughts, if you would. What about 2020 was most difficult for you personally? I'm going to pray for you, too. If you have prayer requests, I'm excited about my guest and I are going to be doing that for you. And this isn't about rehashing, rehearsing. It's not about self-pity. It's about journeying through the valley of grief. And I think so often, well, I know this is true. We don't heal from things we refuse to feel, right? We won't heal from things we refuse to acknowledge. And one of the biggest hindrances to healing from things, losses and hurts, is the comparison thing, where we look at somebody else's loss. It's so much worse. So we minimize our own. Meanwhile, it sits in our soul and it continues to rob from us.

So I would just love to know, why don't you text me and tell me what, you know, what

disappointment, what hurt, what loss?

It can't be too small and it can't be too big.

Whatever it was for you, what was that felt loss disappointment, you know, that you felt? And I want you to know in a couple

weeks, we're going to talk about what your greatest takeaways were from 2020. So don't worry,

that show is coming. Well, my guest today is no stranger to grief, and yet her approach is

different than you may expect. Dr. Melissa Moore joins me today to talk about her story and her book

Navigating Grief with Humor.

She's a professor at our university across the street.

And when she offered an online course on this topic, the response was absolutely epic.

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