INSTANTANEOUS HEALING OF GRIEF
Many years ago, when I was about to graduate from college – it was the week of final exams on the undergraduate level – I received a phone call from my mother telling me that my younger sister had been killed in an automobile accident. Immediately thereafter she said “We must remember that life is eternal.” I knew I had a choice to make in the face of overwhelming grief and shock: I could believe that my precious sister, April, had died. OR, I could believe that life is eternal; but I couldn’t believe both at the same moment. I turned to God in sheer and utter desperation and asked Him to take control of my thinking. He did just that. To my amazement, all the heaviness and horror and sadness and grief evaporated! I was completely free!
Little by little, I began to deal with the “facts” of the so-called here and now. April was now in a place where I could never lose her. What lay before me was to absorb what I had awakened to in the face of everyone else’s grief and try to help whomever I could reach.
I actually took all of my final exams and passed with flying colors. I even embarked on a masters’ degree program that very same week! (That’s what April would have wanted.)
You, too, can be healed of grief. For more than 30 years after April’s passing, I have literally enjoyed the warmth, love, peace, joy, and encouraging touch of April’s presence with me. If this blesses you at all, know this is written just for you and all you need to do is ask God to reveal it to you in a way that you can receive.
……….SEQUEL TO GRIEF HEALED
…………(by Dr. Robin Starbuck)
I just wanted to add a little clarification to my comments about the healing of grief. I never, never, never intended to imply anything about putting the person out of your mind or pretending that he or she had not died. Exactly the opposite! I intended to suggest that it is possible, through God’s grace, to rise above the gnawing, tortuous pain and cherish that person with a closeness never known before and have all the love, caring and sharing that you knew before their passing – and most of all have it permanently. My sister, April, died over 30 years ago and yet I enjoy her presence all the time. God gives us many gifts. My most treasured one is never losing sweet April. Trust God with your loss – with your grief: He will come through for you.
