COPING WITH GRIEF (12 OF 14)
Scripture: Genesis 35:8, Genesis 35:16-29
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Coping with Grief (12 of 14)
Series: God Walks with Us
Stephen Whitney
Genesis 35:8,16-29
Dr. R.A. Torrey, founder of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles in 1912, lost his twelve-year-old daughter in an accident. The funeral was on a rainy day and as they stood there beside that hole in the ground, surrounded by loved ones Mrs. Torrey said to her husband, ''I'm so glad Elizabeth is not in that box.''
They carried their grief home with them that night as they tried to sleep. Dr. Torrey go up in the morning and went for a walk. A wave of grief broke over him anew, the loneliness of her absence, the terrible feeling knowing they would never hear her laughter again, never see her face and never see her grow up.
Grief is our natural human reaction to losing a loved one. Our English word grief comes from the Latin word which means ''heavy with sorrow.'' Webster defines grief as: pain of mind, arising from any sorrow, sadness or pain; that which afflicts.
Doug Manning - ''Grieving is as natural as crying when you are hurt, sleeping when you are tried, eating when you are hungry. It is nature's way of healing a broken heart.''
One reason we grieve when person dies is because we realize that we too, will someday also die and we don't like to reflect on it.
Death is a reality that we face in our sinful world and is a reminder that sin results in death of our loved ones and eventually our self.
DEBORAH - family nurse :8 Deborah - she had been Rebekah's nurse when she was a child and had gone with her when she left home to marry Isaac many years earlier (24:59). She may have now been 130 years old.
Having faithfully served the family for maybe 80 years she was viewed as a grandmother to the family and greatly respected. Old nurses, like her, were not only honored, but loved as mothers; and, as such, her death was the occasion of great grief. Died - she no longer was physically alive. Contemporary America does not like to say the word death. Peop ...
Series: God Walks with Us
Stephen Whitney
Genesis 35:8,16-29
Dr. R.A. Torrey, founder of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles in 1912, lost his twelve-year-old daughter in an accident. The funeral was on a rainy day and as they stood there beside that hole in the ground, surrounded by loved ones Mrs. Torrey said to her husband, ''I'm so glad Elizabeth is not in that box.''
They carried their grief home with them that night as they tried to sleep. Dr. Torrey go up in the morning and went for a walk. A wave of grief broke over him anew, the loneliness of her absence, the terrible feeling knowing they would never hear her laughter again, never see her face and never see her grow up.
Grief is our natural human reaction to losing a loved one. Our English word grief comes from the Latin word which means ''heavy with sorrow.'' Webster defines grief as: pain of mind, arising from any sorrow, sadness or pain; that which afflicts.
Doug Manning - ''Grieving is as natural as crying when you are hurt, sleeping when you are tried, eating when you are hungry. It is nature's way of healing a broken heart.''
One reason we grieve when person dies is because we realize that we too, will someday also die and we don't like to reflect on it.
Death is a reality that we face in our sinful world and is a reminder that sin results in death of our loved ones and eventually our self.
DEBORAH - family nurse :8 Deborah - she had been Rebekah's nurse when she was a child and had gone with her when she left home to marry Isaac many years earlier (24:59). She may have now been 130 years old.
Having faithfully served the family for maybe 80 years she was viewed as a grandmother to the family and greatly respected. Old nurses, like her, were not only honored, but loved as mothers; and, as such, her death was the occasion of great grief. Died - she no longer was physically alive. Contemporary America does not like to say the word death. Peop ...
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