Grief

The Liturgists Podcast

The Liturgists

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2020

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

We have all experienced or will experience grief at some point in our lives. Loss, whether unexpected or not, leaves us feeling alone. In this episode, Dr. Hillary McBride, William Matthews, and Michael Gungor talk about grief, how it affects us, and the toll COVID-19 is taking on the world by creating a large-scale sense of despair. We want to say a special thank you to the many liturgists who submitted their stories of working through grief. Your vulnerability helps us gain a deeper understanding of this complex experience. You are not alone! This Sunday at 11am Pacific you are invited to join us for The Sunday Thing. Hundreds of liturgists from around the world get together via video. We break into smaller groups to talk and it is such a wonderful time. You are not alone in your doubts, questions, anger, sadness, atheism, theism, or any other thing you are going through. To find out more and to join us on Sunday, go to theliturgists.com

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0:00.0	I don't know if I should do this because I kind of wonder if I'd start I'll never stop.
0:09.6	In 2014, I was the mother of two girls, ages three and six.
0:15.4	My home was full of singing laughter and gravely toddler voices in August.
0:21.8	My youngest Sarah was diagnosed with cancer.
0:25.8	Three months later, I was standing beside her grave, unable to do much more than Christ silently.
0:33.6	Grief is the pain I experience and the face of being unable to be with my daughter in the same way.
0:40.4	It is the catalyst for growth and change.
0:43.5	It's the ever-present reminder of what was and what could have been.
0:48.4	Now, six years later, it is all right under the service.
0:54.2	It isn't that my pain is really diminished.
0:57.4	Rather, it's that my heart is learned to hold even more.
1:01.0	Now I have sorrow, joy, pain and peace, longing and fulfillment.
1:07.4	I have both and.
1:12.9	Yes, I am seven weeks out from the loss of my spouse of 41 years.
1:22.2	My husband died seven weeks ago very suddenly and I have spent the last few weeks
1:32.4	not only trying to recover from the loss, but also in isolation because of the COVID-19 virus.
1:44.0	So it has been a time of terrific adjustment for me.
1:50.9	I'm better now than I was three weeks ago, four weeks ago.
1:57.6	But just this evening, I walked into my bedroom and I actually felt
2:04.4	some joy just just rose up in me, this joyous feeling and I continued through my bathroom
2:13.2	into my closet where I once again realized that his clothes were gone.
2:20.5	And despair came over me.
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