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Finding Purpose in Grief: The MISS Foundation Offers a Light at the End of Life’s Darkest Tunnel

By Raising Arizona Kids — 2011

A young mother nears the end of her pregnancy with the hope that this child will be as healthy as her other three children. For some reason, however, she feels a sense that something is wrong.

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The death of a beloved is an amputation.

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I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process.

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God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say ‘My tooth is aching’ than to say ‘My heart is broken.’

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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

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A Grief Observed

Written after his wife’s tragic death as a way of surviving the “mad midnight moment,” A Grief Observed is C.S. Lewis’s honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss.

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C. S. Lewis
2001
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Death or Loss of a Child