Dealing with Loss

• “I went through a divorce; and before the divorce I was grieving what I thought I had [as a future]. Divorce is a death; it is like a death.”

• Treat your marriage, or other relationship, like its own breathing entity. Is it healthy?

• “Loss is like a bucking bronco. It throws us up in the air, and sometimes we come down and land on the back of the horse and sometimes we . . . land in the dirt.”

• “You can experience so many kinds of different losses, but you can still have the same emotion towards it.”

• “Loss changes you. You are not the same when you lose something. Like for me, I am not the same with marriage. It changed me.”

• “Loss does shape us, and I think sometimes we are scared of what the shaping is going to be.”

• “What if loss actually grows us as we do the grief work.”

• How have you seen loss benefit your life?

• “God will use pain to transform us.”

• “Loss is inevitable, and there are certain lessons and gifts it provides as God redeems it.”

• “Loss becomes a gift because from that we are able to minister to others.”

• “Sometimes we are missing out on how He is redeeming because we are trying to take over and make Him redeem it how we would want it.”

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