Category: grief

Traveling Light Ep9

This film is only available in the United States because of territorial licensing. Most of us like to travel. What we don’t like is the baggage we’re carrying around. But what if you could travel through life with no bags at all? In this 18-part teaching series, bestselling author and speaker Max Lucado invites you…


Traveling Light Ep6

This film is only available in the United States because of territorial licensing. Most of us like to travel. What we don’t like is the baggage we’re carrying around. But what if you could travel through life with no bags at all? In this 18-part teaching series, bestselling author and speaker Max Lucado invites you…


Grief and the Power of Letting Go

No one on earth escapes grief. It’s woven into our human experience and something we will all inevitably endure many times throughout our lives. Heartbreak, the loss of someone we love, lost opportunities, disappointments, and hardships are unavoidable—and life doesn’t care who you are, what you believe, or where you come from; grief happens to…


Traveling Light Ep1

This film is only available in the United States because of territorial licensing. Most of us like to travel. What we don’t like is the baggage we’re carrying around. But what if you could travel through life with no bags at all? In this 18-part teaching series, bestselling author and speaker Max Lucado invites you…


On Thanksgiving Day, A Grieving Family Found Love and Solace in Each Other

In the backyard of the Boyd’s home in Birmingham, the sun beamed, drying up the glistening dew on the grass, bringing warmth to the mildly chilly day. The sky gleamed with that deep purple you only see when the air is clear and cold, and when the V-formations of relentless geese fly overhead toward warmer…


Loyal Dogs Grieving the Loss of Their Owners

The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them. …


How an Author and a Grieving Father Found Unexpected Healing Through Playing a Game of Catch

On the morning of September 20, 2020, author Ethan Bryan sat down in the rear of Mudhouse Coffee in downtown Springfield, Missouri. Bryan sipped a mocha. The smell of sizzling sausage and bell peppers drifted out of the kitchen, just a few feet away. Normally, Bryan would be writing, but today was different. He’d recently…


Pathways Through Grief: Dealing With the Death of a Loved One

In “C.S. Lewis on Grief,” editor Lesley Walmsley wrote, “There is a great hurt in grief, generally a feeling that no one else really understands, that no one else has ever suffered in quite this way or to quite this extent.” To be human is to suffer, but grief is in a category of pain…


Dealing With Grief on the Cancer Journey

Cancer isn’t just a physical struggle but also an emotional one, as patients, survivors and their loved ones experience grief and loss throughout the experience. Gabrielle Alvarez, a social worker at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, offered some tips to help patients and caregivers manage their feelings. Alvarez, a certified grief counselor, noted that…


Life After Loss

Two months earlier, Mita’s partner had died suddenly. “I hate this. I hate it so much. When will it get better?” she asked. Her plea carried the familiar chest-crushing tune of grief. As a widow of three years, I knew too well that the truth would seem incongruous if not insulting. So all I said…