Category: Grief and Trauma Awareness

Topic: Grief and Trauma Awareness   —   Key Scripture: The Psalms We know what to do with certain kinds of grief. When someone dies, there are rituals for it. A funeral, a gathering, people who bring food and say the right things and acknowledge, formally and publicly, that a loss has occurred. The grief has a…

Topic: Grief and Trauma Awareness   —   Key Scripture: Psalm 23 There is a particular kind of exhaustion that has no clean name. It is not the tiredness that comes from a hard week or a late night or a demanding project. Those are recoverable. A good night’s sleep, a quiet weekend, some time away from…

Topic: Grief and Trauma Awareness   —   Key Scriptures: Psalm 139:1-6 There is a phrase that functions almost like a reflex in most of our lives. “I’m fine.” We say it without thinking. To coworkers, to family members, to the person who asks how we are in passing. We say it in church lobbies and ministry…

Topic: Grief and Trauma Awareness | Key Scripture: Psalm 34:18 Grief has a way of showing up uninvited. It arrives at the grocery store, in the middle of a song, on an ordinary Tuesday afternoon when nothing in particular has happened. It does not observe timelines or respect the expectations of others. It does not…