Article: Overcoming Grief
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Overcoming Grief
During my first year of college a life-long family friend and mentor tragically lost his son. Separated by distance, I assumed that his Christian friends, the staff at his church, and his Sunday school class would step in and wrap their arms around him and his wife. Needless to say I was surprised, one year later, when we were able to finally meet face to face. When I asked him how he and his wife were doing the first words out of his mouth were, ?Brian, the church failed us during our greatest time of need.? Knowing first-hand his maturity and emotional soundness, I was taken back. I thought, ?If he said the church failed them, the church must have really failed them.?
Those who experience tragic loss, which I?m sure will include all of us by the time we leave this planet, ...
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