{"id":18388,"date":"2017-08-23T05:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T09:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/?p=18388"},"modified":"2017-08-22T20:29:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T00:29:14","slug":"loss-august-23-2017-daily-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/loss-august-23-2017-daily-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Loss, August 23, 2017 Daily Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My Grandpa’s Grave<\/p><\/div>It breaks my heart to watch young people suffer the loss of a parent, grandparent, or family member. It’s hard enough to grow up in this world without tragedy and loss but with loss it just compiles the complications. When I was in fifth grade my dad had a heart attack. I felt as though it was a wake up call to love him like crazy. Not long after my dad recovered a friend of mine lost her dad to a heart attack. It hurt my heart to think about her new life without him. At that age I believed in God and in heaven but could not understand salvation, and eternal peace like I can now. All I saw was her pain.<\/p>\n

Over the years I have watched my students cope with the pain of losing close family members. I pray for the family and the teen. Someone once told me that losing a loved one is like having a body part amputated. The person is still alive, functioning, and has to go on but he\/she has lost a part that can never be replaced. The person will never be the same, he\/she will be changed for a lifetime. I am no expert on loss but I believe a few things that are truly important at this time are being surrounded by loved ones and faith, that there is hope that the pain will stop and tomorrow will come. I can’t begin to imagine loss like this all I can do is attempt to comfort and to pray. Pray that the survivor can feel and witness the love of God through others who are supportive. Pray that he\/she will come to know that the loved one is no longer suffering but in the arms of God in peace forever. So, that is what I will continue you to do. I will pray and try to love each person through their loss. <\/p>\n

If you have any suggestions as a survivor that can help please leave a comment. Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dealing with loss…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[20,1060],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}