A Greif Observed

In A Grief Observed, I couldn’t help but focus on Lewis’ way in working through his thoughts. It’s amazing that even a man as learned and smart as Lewis, when face with a situation such as this, falls away from any thoughts he had about dealing with grief. We often can see what might be the best way to deal with a situation such as this and even what God has set in place for us to use to overcome this grief, but we don’t want it. We need time to be angry, to let out those deepest feelings of mistrust and dislike. If we try to fit a simple Band-Aid around such a deep wound we leave the broken all the way at the bottom untouched. It is important to have people along each and every step. Without interaction and wrestling with the situation with someone else we lose any sort of gain that may come from a tragedy. People was created by God to be in community with one another, to go through this situation thinking that no one can help you is selfish and it also provides the other people an opportunity to learn through yourself so they can work through their own tragedies. When Jesus was crucified his disciples were filled with grief, so they went off by themselves and look what happened. Their deepest darkest feelings came out, even enough to renounce Jesus three times. Think if they had stayed together the power they would have over grief in community with each other.