Healing Through Faith Archives - First Hour Grief Response

It Is Inevitable

Post author:Julie Wolf
Post published:April 1, 2021
Post category:About Grief Healing Healing Through Faith Loss of a Child
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Sleep...why do you elude me? I haven’t slept through the night since my eldest, Levi, was born over 26 years ago. I guess it’s a mom/worry/“what if they need…

The Hope of Spring

Post author:Julie Wolf
Post published:March 13, 2021
Post category:Healing Healing Through Faith
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Outside my bedroom window is a pin oak tree we bought on clearance at Walmart about 20 years ago. Each time I look at it, I’m amazed that something I…

Can I Forgive?

Post author:Julie Wolf
Post published:February 5, 2021
Post category:About Grief Healing Healing Through Faith Loss of a Child
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We never know what the day may hold, do we? When I was 18 years old, getting ready to graduate from high school, anticipating my future life with excitement, a…

Grief upon Grief

Post author:Julie Wolf
Post published:February 1, 2021
Post category:About Grief Healing Through Faith How to Help Someone in Grief Loss of a Child
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Today, I just can’t... It’s one of those days where it all culminates and puts me into an almost paralyzed state. Compounded grief—ever heard of it? The definition of…

Letting Others In

Post author:Julie Wolf
Post published:January 15, 2021
Post category:About Grief Healing Healing Through Faith How to Help Someone in Grief Loss of a Child Loss of a Parent
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I love to read. I thank my dear mother, who passed away in 2008, for instilling that adoration in me. She would go to the library and check out at…

Grieving Uncertainty

Post author:Lisa Schardein
Post published:April 1, 2020
Post category:About Grief Healing Healing Through Faith Loss of a Child
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I’m not sure what I’m feeling. It’s very much like grief and has taken me back to the months that followed after my son, Ben Koier, passed away. It’s this…

Prayer Shawl

Post author:Karen Buchanan
Post published:March 20, 2019
Post category:Healing Healing Through Faith How to Help Someone in Grief
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I am often asked, “What brought you comfort in the early days?” The same memory usually pops in my mind that I like to share. It was about a week…

Sitting on the Jet…Pause… Observe…

Post author:Karen Buchanan
Post published:November 23, 2018
Post category:About Grief Healing Through Faith How to Help Someone in Grief
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I’m sitting on a packed plane getting ready to leave town. A child behind me is screaming. Her mom is doing her best to console her. Most passengers have technology…

Survivors Guide To Four Letter Words

Post author:First Hour Grief Response
Post published:September 14, 2018
Post category:About Grief Healing Through Faith Loss of a Child
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SURVIVORS GUIDE TO FOUR LETTER WORDS It took at least two years before I would accept that I was a survivor. It took a little longer to understand how…

God and Me

Post author:Debbie Brodfuehrer
Post published:June 22, 2016
Post category:About Grief Healing Through Faith
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So many things have shaped my faith ~ few like grief.I had loved Tom, cared for him as he died and released him to a loving Heavenly Father who would someday…