Steps in Dealing With Grief, United Church of God

   Steps in Dealing With Grief   : We all have to cope with the loss caused by death. How can we deal with our grief and help others who are grieving?                                                 

• Stages of grief: denial
• Stages of grief: anger
• Stages of grief: bargaining
• Stages of grief: depression
• Stages of grief: acceptance

This, too, shall pass away

Time is a great healer. This is especially true in the case of the loss of a loved one.

In a speech before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society in 1859, Abraham Lincoln commented: “It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate at all times and situations. They presented him with the words, ‘And this, too, shall pass away.’ How much it expresses. How chastening in the hour of pride. How consoling in the depths of affliction.” [speech also quoted in Lincoln on America's Future]
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