Griefing
I remeber it as if it were yesterday. The phone call my mother got telling her that my father who I would never get to know had passed. I was only ten years old at the time. I griefed as a ten year old would grief. But even today as an adult I still find that I have some unresolved feelings of grief where my father is concerned. I feel as if I was cheated out having the opportunity to know the man, and the consequences for my adult life have been very real and profound, often times dowright arduous. As human beings there are a wide range of emotions that God has equipped us with. Each emotion he has given us serves a very important role in our over all well being. To stay psychologically healthy we must learn to utilize each one as God has equipped us to use them. The bible says there is a time and season for everything, a time to laugh, a time to cry, a time to live, a time to die. One of the most prominant emotions we have that a lot of us struggle with is the emotion of grief. When ...