When You Feel Betrayed by God
What's included: how to write your own psalm of sorrow; a video clip from the podcast episode; a quote to consider; a song to listen to; three questions to reflect on
So many of us have experienced a before and after.
A “before” you knew that life was fragile…and an “after.” When you can’t go back. You can’t un-know. You are changed. Where is God in this? And what do we do when, like David expresses over and over again in the Psalms, we feel a sense of divine abandonment or betrayal?
In this week’s Faith & Feelings episode, my friend Jessica joins me to share about her recent miscarriage journey. Although Jessica shares about the loss of a child, she speaks to the emotional undercurrent of loss in a way that will deeply resonate with many different experiences of sorrow: I hope you’ll listen in:
A clip from the podcast episode:
Grief and loss are always with us, continually shaping our walk through life. How do we learn to carry our grief and not collapse or turn away in denial?
One of the most essential skills we need to develop is our ability to stay present to our adult selves when grief arises. I love how Jessica describes the grieving process in this clip from the interview:
The stages of grief provide a helpful framework, but these stages aren’t linear. Grief is more like a maze or labyrinth. Moving through grief begins with sitting in our pain and by naming and honoring the complex emotions that are inseparably interwoven throughout the grieving process.
Have you thought about grief in this way? What emotions surface inside of you when you consider sitting with your pain and allowing the waves of grief to come?
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