The last step in Grieving

Saying for the Day: It will be good but not the same .

This is the last Sunday that we will be listing the steps on grieving 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
The good news is that the process comes to an end.
We finally pass from the old life to the new.
We learn to live the way things are now and to find joy in them.

This is not to say that things will be as they were before.
They won’t.
We won’t be the same as we were before

But things can be and will be good again.

The memories that hurt as the process began now more and more will bring us joy.
The new life will take on its own dimensions.
For the Christian the God that went through the
process with us. The God that upholds us, will be there to fill the new life with joy and peace.

This does not mean there is no joy after grief for the non Christian only that God adds to the new life of the Christian.
This I can say from my experience.
I can not tell you what is true outside of my experience but I suspect that people of other religions are also able to lean on their God during grief.

So if your grieving believe you will get through.

There will come a time again of joy and laughter.

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News from Pigeon Falls– the little town in my backyard where the trains still run and dragons fly.-Yesterday was the stuff legends are written out of. The catapults were set up in front of the bandstand on main street. The street was blocked off so that the pumpkins could be fired down the street. The first practice pumpkins had been launched with impressive results when suddenly flying up the end of the street came the dragon, flames spewing from his mouth. Harold Wren fired a pumpkin from his catapult right at the dragon. The dragon moved up then reached down and grabbed the pumpkin. Mrs. Trumble raised her shotgun but before she could fire the dragon let the pumpkin fall and it caught the end of Mrs. Trumble’s shotgun knocking it out of her hands and bursting on the sidewalk. There she stood covered with pumpkin pieces . The dragon turned and flew down the street. The men catapulted pumpkins at it but they were not very good shots and it disappeared around the church and out to the woods. The dragon was a better shot than the pumpkin throwers.
Fast forward to the evening street dance in front of the bandstand where the “Dragon Slayers with Teacups “ were playing. Suddenly both the White Rabbit and the dragon showed up. The dragon was carrying a pumpkin and heading right fore Mrs. Trumble who had pointed her shotgun at the White Rabbit. Suddenly she looked up and saw the dragon. She quickly raised the gun and just as the dragon left go of the pumpkin she fired. It hit the pumpkin dead on covering the fancerrs below eith pumpkin pieces. The dragon turned , the rabbit turned, and by the time Mrs. Trumble got her shotgun reloaded they were gone.
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We had a great day with Pennie today. She was welcomed into the church she joined down there. It seems like a very nice church. As an added suprise my son Patrick and his sons showed up along with Curtis. He passed up tickets to a Packer game to be there for his sister. Do I have great kids or what? Well we are back in Crystal Falls .Read the comments and discovered the blog links wern't working . I have corrected the problem . If they still don't work hit the refesh button.Sorry. If I had been home I would have caught it. I will open the list again on Tuesday so everyone has a chance.I need a breathing teatment.
GBYA