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TRAUMATIC LOSS: Holy Week’s Lament

April 6, 2020 By Jennifer Stuart

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 […]

Filed Under: Easter, Grief, Trauma Tagged With: Grief, Holy Week, Mental Health Network, trauma, UCC, United Church of Christ

The Practice of Grief

February 24, 2020 By Hannah Campbell Gustafson

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 […]

Filed Under: Grief Tagged With: Grief, Mental Health Network, rituals, UCC, United Church of Christ

A Season of Lament

October 7, 2019 By Rev. Dr. Rachael Keefe

Reprinted here from Rachael’s Blog, “Write out of Left Field.” There is so little room for grief in western society, yet it is not something anyone can avoid. Today grief sits heavily on my heart. I’m returning home from a trip to my childhood home for the Celebration of Life for the woman who was […]

Filed Under: Faith, Grief, Hope Tagged With: Grief, hope, Lament, Mental Health Network, sadness, UCC, United Church of Christ

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