Hit Hard: Part 2
Ambiguous Loss is a loss that occurs without closure or clear understanding, it’s unresolved grief as Professor Pauline Boss states it, and it’s something the McCleod family knows all too well.
Tammy McCleod gave us three practical, yet profound steps we can take whenever we encounter loss of any kind:
Daily Psalm: read, pray, meditate, sing a psalm from the Bible.
Real loss: don’t explain away the loss (no matter the size or significance), don’t compare the loss to others. Just embrace it, grieve it, and…
Look for God: where is God breaking into your circumstances? What are you finding? As you look at what you’ve lost, look also at what you’ve found and what God has given you.
“The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears them; he delivers them from all their troubles. The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.” (Psalm 34:17-18)
The goal is not to deny, bury, or minimize a loss—but rather, to find peace in learning to live well with the loss…and true peace only comes from walking closely to the Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ.
