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Joan Borysenko: The Important Role We Play in Each Other's Lives

By Joan Borysenko — 2020

HEAL featuring Joan Borysenko.

00:43 min

FindCenter Quotes ImageI thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe death of a beloved is an amputation.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageGod allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageMental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say ‘My tooth is aching’ than to say ‘My heart is broken.’

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FindCenter Quotes ImageNo one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

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A Grief Observed

Written after his wife’s tragic death as a way of surviving the “mad midnight moment,” A Grief Observed is C.S. Lewis’s honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss.

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Grief