For anyone carrying tears that won’t come. Quick answer: Not being able to cry while grieving is common. Shock, exhaustion, the pressure to keep functioning, and the fear of never stopping once you start can all build an inner “dam wall.” You haven’t failed. Isaiah 25 pictures God wiping the […]
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We can get angry to the point where we want to curse the day we were born, but being held in our anger allows us to go through and not around the pain. Quick answer: In Job 3, Job breaks seven days of silence by cursing the day he […]
Grief is hard, but grieving alone can be a torment of anguish. So we sit with the broken, we stay silent, and we sit Shiva with the tears. Quick answer: Sitting Shiva is the Jewish practice of a seven-day mourning period after a burial, when friends and family visit […]