Grief step five- Fear and Panic

Saying for the Day: Life will never be the same again.

Today and every Sunday for the next five Sunday’s we are looking at the steps in the grief process as described by Pastor Granger Westberg. These steps are:
1. Shock
2. Emotion
3. Depression
4. Physical pain
5. Fear or panic
6. Guilt
7. Anger
8. We function poorly
9. The breaking in of hope
10. The start of the new life
For most people there comes a point in the grief process where fear or panic sets in.
We are afraid we will never know love again.
We are afraid we will never get another job.
We are afraid that we will never be happy again.
What we fear depends on what caused the grief in the first place.

At this point people try to think of something else but keep coming back to the fear until they are the edge of panic.
Sometimes people feel that they are losing their mind.
This is a time when we really need other people and we need to do things even though we don‘t feel like it.
If we know that what we are experiencing is a normal part of the grief process that knowledge actually helps us to have less fear.

We need to remind ourselves that the process will end.

Life will be good again, different, but good.

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News from Pigeon Falls-the little town in my backyard where the trains still run and old ladies carry shotguns– The White Rabbit still hasn’t made an appearance. Mrs. Trumble says she is ready if he does. She and Demon Slayer ( the name she has given her shotgun) will send it home again. The dragon hasn’t been seen either and one wonders if it’s afraid of Mrs. Trumble.
Tomorrow , they are having a bridge walk over at Crippled Creek. It’s a small town version of the walk over the Mackinaw Bridge. It is of course a lot smaller. But there will be a parade out to the bridge and there will be a big party afterward. Beer and hot dogs will be be sold as well as pop for the kids. There will be a street dance in the evening. The Three Violins and an Oboe will play ( the band doesn’t have a single violin or an oboe. Where do they get these names?) .People are sort of expecting both Mrs. Trumble and the dragon to show up. Eino hopes that won’t happen as she might blow out one of the store windows trying to hit a flying target.
Not to many people in church at Last Lutheran this weekend it was the last weekend before school and people took advantage of it. Pastor Marvel preached on keeping the ten commandments (not your usual Lutheran sermon). At the 10:00 service he broke a big stone tablet which had the commandments on it. He said that’s what Moses did when he returned and found that people had turned away from God. It was a great sermon. Its too bad there were so few people to hear it.
The Methodist ladies will be selling pasties tomorrow afternoon before the street dance. Somebody asked if dragons like pasties but nobody seemed to know. It seems that pasties would give the dragon plenty of gas to keep his fire going.
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Yesterday we drew Lor's Minute and if we draw her again today she gets what's in the Prize Box.
She has one chance in 503 of being drawn.
We will draw when Betty gets up.

Well Betty got up late and we got busy but finally the slips got cut in and Betty drew. The name drawn today is


Nea. Sorry Lori ( sorry Bree) Good luck Nea. If Nea is drawn tomorrow then she gets what's in the prize box.
Spent most of the day doing the September web page for the church ( I'm only three days late). I changed the layout a bit. Then I took pictures of the prizes for the drawing tomorrow. Betty and I also spent some time at a web site called Pogo playing games.
Well I need a breathing treatment.
GBYA