Busyness

I understood the temptation. It would have been easy to get stuck in Busyness. But only part of my healing could take place there. If I didn’t travel to the other rooms of the Grief Mansion I would never be able to get out.

Grief Mansion

The grief process is uneven. Some rooms in my Grief Mansion were repeated, others skipped until later, but all were necessary for my complete healing and recovery. I found that the amount of time I spent in each room was determined partly by me and partly by the Grief Monster.

Grief Mansion

Grief is the process we grow through when we experience a loss. I experienced grief not as a series of stages such as Kubler-Ross wrote about, but as though I was the captive of a creaky house with many rooms. When I found a window, I could see that the rest of life continued, as usual, outside of the Grief Mansion. I longed to be there, in the sun again, away from my pain. The only way out was to feel my way down the maze of dark hallways, visiting room after room of this Grief Mansion. Each room became a place where God’s healing occurred.

This blog will explore issues related to death, dying and grief. The way through the mansion may at first seem obscure, but there is hope.