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• The comforter’s role is to step into the spaces of suffering so that they can provide companionship and accountability, listen, offer compassion and encouragement.
• Collins’ definition also highlights the differentiation between loss and grief. Loss is the term that relates to something that has been taken away, whereas grief relates to the multifaceted, conflicting feelings we experience as a result of that loss.
• - Denial or disbelief. The first reaction is the refusal to believe that the loss has occurred. This is a shock response that allows the individual to slowly absorb the reality. “No. This has not happened. It cannot be true that I lost ______.” “No, not me.” “I just can’t believe it.” - Anger. Resentment grows. “Why me?” “Why did this have to happe...
• Without realizing it, I had allowed the post-Christian secular culture, with its entitlement, materialism, false-promises, cynicism, and deception to influence my thinking and how I saw the world.
• Ultimately, I pray that this book and its focus on what the Book of Job can teach us about suffering will stimulate thoughtful reflection and fruitful discussions. I pray by the book’s conclusion it will have achieved three specific integrated goals: First, that readers will have begun to form a Christian theology of suffering; second, that readers...