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GOOD GRIEF: Seven Steps to Embracing Emotions- #5 Believing that Feelings are a gift from God
Step five is best understood when preceded with a little recap of the first four steps. First, we must be honest about what we feel. Don’t pretend that giving up something is easy. It isn’t. Humans want to hold on, be in control, and even determine our own destiny. Validate their feelings. Ask them why they think they are having those feelings. Share with them when you’ve had similar feelings. Remind them that feelings are from God to help us make wise and good decisions. Second, we must normalize feelings. Loss is a part of our lives. We lose track of time. We lose lots of stuff: everything from…
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How does your garden grow?
I have always wanted to have a garden. I would see friends post pictures of the vegetables they had grown on facebook and I “grew” a little envious. So a couple years ago, a friend helped me put in two small gardens. I planted tomatoes, bell peppers, jalapeno peppers, squash, blackberries and herbs. Each day my son and I would water it. On weekends, we would weed it. When nasty, little squash insects showed up; my son took care of that. Each week we would get more excited as our plants started to grow and take hold. It was our project–our garden. As little green sprouts grew and started to…
