What Helps
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What helps when you are living with loss, grief, and great change? Read more →
On Love and Death
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So much of who we are is retained in our memories. Read more →
Pay Attention
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“Sit, Naomi, and pay attention!” This was my ongoing, never-ending command to my Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier. Read more →
REsources for Living
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We tend to talk about grief as the feeling that arises when someone we love dies. Read more →
Audio Resources
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Jeremiah 9:17-21
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17 This is what the Lord Almighty says:
“Consider now! Call for the wailing women to come;
send for the most skillful of them.
18 Let them come quickly
and wail over us
till our eyes overflow with tears
and water streams from our eyelids.
19 The sound of wailing is heard from Zion:
‘How ruined we are!
How great is our shame!
We must leave our land
because our houses are in ruins.’”
20 Now, you women, hear the word of the Lord;
open your ears to the words of his mouth.
Teach your daughters how to wail;
teach one another a lament.
21 Death has climbed in through our windows
and has entered our fortresses;
it has removed the children from the streets
and the young men from the public squares.
Grief
October 2020
Grief is just love with no place to go. — Jamie Anderson
Articles
Letting Go
When you’re a capable, confident, 28-year-old child of privilege and experience, then you are accustomed to taking the challenges that come up in life and simply…managing them. Read more »
Carve Meaning
One of the many ways to carve meaning out of grief is to honor the memory of those we have lost. Read more »
Grief and Gravity
The movie Gravity, which came out in 2013, is about grief. And it’s worth watching with this in mind, because what Alfonso Cuarón, the director and co-writer, and Jonás Cuarón, the other co-writer, have to tell us about grief can help us through it. Read more »
No Words Needed
When you lose someone you love, there are some things that are just really hard to hear: They’re in a better place. Time heals all wounds. I know how you feel. Read more »
Good Grief
Grief is more than just an intense form of pain. It is the emotion triggered by severe loss—a loss of a part of the self. Read more »
Pay Attention
“Sit, Naomi, and pay attention!” This was my ongoing, never-ending command to my Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier. Read more »
REsources for Living
We tend to talk about grief as the feeling that arises when someone we love dies. Read more »
Audio Resources
You can listen to audio recordings of Quest Monthly, read back issues or get electronic versions of the text to share with friends (and much more) at questformeaning.org Read more »
Jeremiah 9:17-21
17 This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Consider now! Call for the wailing women to come; send for the most skillful of them. Read more »
Imagining a Way
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One of the best ways I know to get things moving when I’m facing significant change is to engage my imagination. Read more →
Creative Imagination
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When I was in college, a professor began the term by assigning a novel set in a dystopian future, where everything was grim and hope was absent. Read more →
Pure Imagination
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We live in a world that seems bereft of potential, a world that seems to have lost its imagination. Read more →
