Teachback Tuesday: How to Comfort Grieving Hearts

Keep the Heart

Francie Taylor

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 1 March 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Welcome to TEACHBACK TUESDAY! Conference season is in full swing, so we'll be providing episodes from the previous season sprinkled in between the new episodes. It is entirely possible that this Teachback Tuesday segment is even more relevant now than when it first aired. So many people have had enormous life changes, including the passing of loved ones. There is a way to comfort those who are grieving, and then there are ways that really don't help at all. Listen to what Job said in Job 16:2 after his friends failed to comfort him with their armchair-analyst observations: "I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all." Job’s friends may have meant to be a blessing, but they ended up adding to his pain and won the prize for miserable comforters. How can we be comforters and not the miserable kind? A great place to begin is with the right perspective, and that is found in Phil. 2:4: "Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others." We all take turns in the rotation of grieving. Sometimes we're in need of comfort, and then we're on the team of comforters. This episode provides a short list of ways that be a help rather than another source of discomfort. Follow Keep the Heart on Instagram NEW! Mirror Talk: A Journey from Hurt to Healing NEW! Encouragement for Your Identity--A 30-day Devotional NEW! Divorce Hurts--Be An Encourager Visit Keep the Heart Little is Much When Many are the Givers Keep the Heart on Facebook Francie on Facebook

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0:00.0	Welcome to Teach Back Tuesday at Keep the Heart.
0:02.4	It's entirely possible that there could be listeners out there who need this episode more now than when it was first published.
0:09.6	Let's listen.
0:11.2	Before our world ever heard the words COVID-19, people were passing away, leaving loved ones behind, stricken with grief, and longing for comfort and relief.
0:21.3	When you add the pandemic-related deaths to cancer, heart disease, accidents, and even more,
0:27.3	you have a world that is either grieving or comforting someone who is in grief.
0:31.9	How can we be helpful to those who are hurting?
0:35.0	How can we really give comfort to grieving hearts? There are ways to be a
0:39.4	blessing and not a burden. No one needs a miserable comforter.
0:50.1	Thank you for joining Keep the Heart for today's podcast with Francie Taylor.
0:55.1	Francie is an author, teacher, and conference speaker.
0:58.7	Sharing lessons from the Word of God is her passion.
1:02.0	Now, back to today's important study.
1:07.5	I am acquainted with grief, but it caught me off guard spiritually. I was living in that it will always be like this kind of a stage. You know what I'm talking about, where we really take everything that's going on in our worlds for granted. And so I was in that zone when my mom passed away in May of 2015. But little did I know that her passing would be
1:30.8	a training of sorts for the next tremendous loss that I would suffer when my beloved soulmate of
1:36.9	35 years would be the next one to pass, just a mere two years later. I wasn't even recovered from
1:43.2	the passing of my mom when my Norman got his cancer
1:46.6	diagnosis. Two forms of cancer were just racing through his body. He had renal cell carcinoma and
1:52.8	multiple myeloma. This was what we were told at our last oncology visit after we had had several.
1:59.5	The oncologist looked at both of us with sad eyes and said,
2:02.8	whatever you're going to do, do it quickly. So we went home and planned what we called our last
2:07.8	vacation. Interesting things happened on that final trip. The cleaning lady was finishing up as we
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