Great discussion about suffering going on here.
Mike has been posting some interesting material on this topic for several days, so you might want to go to his main page and scroll back.
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RESOURCES FOR GRIEVING YOUNG PEOPLE
RESOURCES FOR SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE and PARENTS WHO HAVE LOST CHILDREN
The Desert
I began writing here in order to reflect my way through the first full calendar year after the sudden death in September 2008 of our beloved 24-year-old son. In no way am I able in mere words to plumb the depths of our family's sorrow, but at least here I can wade around a bit in the shallows. Or tread lightly in the expanse of desert that seems not to end. Whatever metaphor works. And, oh ~ I'm not alone. In the list below you'll find others who have written about the big losses of recent years. (Other posts - from the first four months - can be found on my regular blog, Search the Sea, indexed under Grief and Loss.)
THERE ARE OTHERS
Cloud of Topics
Advent
(5)
Algonquin
(2)
Art
(4)
Ashes
(3)
Beauty
(1)
Birds
(3)
Blogging
(9)
Bonhoeffer
(1)
Books
(12)
Care for the Grieving
(7)
Carpe Diem
(1)
Catholic
(2)
Cemeteries
(1)
Chartres
(2)
Chicago
(1)
Choosing Life
(1)
Christianity
(1)
Church
(11)
Church Year
(1)
CPE
(3)
Cremation Liturgy
(2)
Delp
(2)
Desert
(2)
Dreams
(1)
Easter
(3)
Experience
(3)
Faith
(2)
Family
(19)
Family and Friends
(8)
Family. Friends
(1)
Florida
(1)
France
(3)
Friends
(21)
Funerals
(1)
God
(3)
Gratitude
(2)
Grey's Anatomy
(1)
Grief
(4)
Guelph
(4)
Health
(3)
Hebrew
(9)
Holidays
(7)
Holocaust
(2)
Hope
(1)
House
(1)
Humor
(1)
Icons
(1)
Ignatian
(3)
Incongruity
(1)
Jesuit
(5)
Jewish
(2)
Judaism
(1)
Labyrinth
(1)
Landscape
(5)
Lent 2009
(5)
Ministry
(2)
Monastery
(1)
Mothers
(4)
Music
(5)
Novels
(2)
Oregon
(2)
PC(USA)
(2)
Poetry
(4)
Prayer
(6)
Quotes
(3)
Retreat
(5)
Retreats
(2)
Rituals
(4)
Seminary
(27)
Sermons
(1)
Spiritual Direction
(12)
Spirituality
(6)
Suffering
(2)
Suicide
(38)
Surviving Loss
(104)
Television
(2)
The Process
(2)
Tikva
(1)
Wilderness
(1)
Wisdom
(3)
Youtube
(2)
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1 comment:
The thing about suffering is that the turning point...maybe the "teaching" point... comes when you realize that you are not the only person who has ever been afflicted by it. One's suffering is unique to onesself, certainly...but there comes a point where one realizes that what we suffer is part and parcel of human existence. (Which is not to say that human existence is all about suffering; it just...comes with the territory.)
I think that if you never come to that realization, THAT is when suffering destroys you.
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