Get Blog Post Updates
Sign up to receive blog posts automatically emailed straight to your inbox.

Tagged: Grief

Denial: Step One in the Seven Stages of Grief
Posted on Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: denial, Ecclesiastes 7: 2, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, five stages of grief, Grief, How to conquer grief, How to walk through grief, Seven stages of grief, University of Washington

@carol_mcclain “It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for death is the destiny of everyone; the living should take this to heart” (Ecc. 7:2, NIV). Grieving can be for any traumatic issue. In my life, I’m processing grief over multiple losses and problems. However, if you have experienced …[ read more ]
Ecclesiastes 1:18–Knowledge=Sorrow
Posted on Thursday, October 11th, 2012 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: Ecclesiastes 1:18, Grief, knowledge, sorrow

Much learning earns you much trouble. The more you know, the more you hurt. Eccl 1:18 This verse confused me. I love knowledge. I believed you can never have too much. But then, I discovered, the hard way, the more you know, the more you realize you don’t know. Then you find yourself …[ read more ]
Good Grief
Posted on Thursday, April 19th, 2012 | Filed under Uncategorized | Tagged: Ecclesiastes 7, Grief, sorrow

Good Grief (Photo credit: Camps ) It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart. 3 Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart …[ read more ]

Christian–You Are Righteous, But Are You Merciful?

Carol McClain Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy. Matt. 5:7 Don Carson, a theologian and co-founder of Gospel Coalition, writes: “Mercy is a loving response prompted by the misery and helplessness of the one on which love is to be showered.” If I only knew then what I know now. I used to be able to point my fingers at others for not learning how to pull themselves out of the gutter. After all, I'd come from a rough and tumble upbringing where alcohol use (we were NOT drug addicts, thank you) was de rigueur. Poor and self-conscious… ...[ full story ]

Carol McClain