Get up, God! Are you going to sleep all day? Wake up! Don’t you care what happens to us? Why do you bury your face in the pillow? Why pretend things are just fine with us? And here we are—flat on our faces in the dirt, held down with a boot on our necks. Get up […]
Grief
TRAUMATIC LOSS: Holy Week’s Lament
25 “For [j]what I fear comes upon me,And what I dread befalls me.26 “I am not at ease, nor am I quiet,And I am not at rest, but turmoil comes.”(Job 3:25-26) (TRIGGER WARNING) TRAUMATIC LOSS: “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?” Traumatic grief /bereavement is defined as when there is a death […]
The Practice of Grief
One of my jobs right now is as Associate Chaplain for Christian and Interfaith Life at Carleton College. Carleton is a small liberal arts college with about 2000 students. This term, I was asked to convene some sort of grief group, as an alternate or addition to the closed clinical groups offered by the student […]
