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Grief Counseling is available for those in need of spiritual and emotional support during difficult times of grieving. This group takes place on an as needed basis. Contact the church office or Julie Miehe to inquire.

We also post weekly healing meditations here to help during difficult times where ever you are:

Weekly Healing Meditations:

“Life is amazing. And then it’s awful. And then it’s amazing again. And in between the amazing and the awful it’s ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale through the ordinary. That’s just living heartbreaking, soul-healing, amazing and awful, ordinary life. And it’s breathtakingly beautiful.” –LR. Knost

Grief can be awful. Life can be awful in grief.

The word “awful” originally came from awe + full. Full of awe. “Awe” is like wonder, except not as happy. The psychologist Robert Plutchik said awe is a combination of fear and surprise. Huh. I guess our grief can be surprisingly fearful. Fearfully surprising, too.

If we regard our grief with awe instead of disdain, if we respect it instead of trying to ignore it, we’re giving it its due. It’s hard to hold on through the awful, but it’s also unavoidable. And with time and effort, that holding on will bring us round to amazing again.

Know that life is both amazing and awful. My privilege at one requires my presence at the other.

From Grief One Day at a Time by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D.