{"id":1168,"date":"2019-02-07T11:38:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T16:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/?p=1168"},"modified":"2019-02-07T11:38:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T16:38:47","slug":"grief-and-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/grief-and-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Grief and Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/grief.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1169\" src=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/grief.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"281\" height=\"179\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For all those who have grieving friends<br \/>\nFor all who are grieving<br \/>\nFor those whose pain seems unbearable<br \/>\nFor those who are uncomfortable witnessing pain<br \/>\nFor those whose loss shifts reality so deeply that you cannot stand&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It will be better. Your grief and pain does not mean you have no faith.<br \/>\nIt does not mean Godde has abandoned you.<br \/>\nIt does not mean there is no hope.<\/p>\n<p>It means that something in your life matters that much.<br \/>\nThat you loved that much<br \/>\ntried that much<br \/>\ncared that much<br \/>\nstrove that much<br \/>\nthat the loss means you must redefine your world, or your place in the world,<br \/>\nor the dimensions of your world.<\/p>\n<p>And when you are not a container large enough to hold the pain and grief<br \/>\nlook for the people who are not afraid to come to you<br \/>\nand to sit with you in your darkness.<br \/>\nLook for the people who know who you are<br \/>\nno matter how different you seem<br \/>\nin this time that seems to stretch without end.<\/p>\n<p>And if you are a witness to a grief that unravels<br \/>\nor to a pain that shreds both heart and gut,<br \/>\nhold the light of the one who suffers<br \/>\nbecause the day will come<br \/>\nwhen they will need it<br \/>\nto find their way back to the land of the living.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/holding-the-light.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1170\" src=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/holding-the-light-300x156.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/holding-the-light-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/holding-the-light.jpg 311w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all those who have grieving friends For all who are grieving For those whose pain seems unbearable For those who are uncomfortable witnessing pain For those whose loss shifts reality so deeply that you cannot stand&#8230; It will be better. Your grief and pain does not mean you have no faith. It does not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/grief-and-faith\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Grief and Faith<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,8,21,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1171,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions\/1171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}