From Heartache to Healing: How to Release Grief and Embrace Happiness

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From Heartache to Healing: How to Release Grief and Embrace Happiness

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Summary

Liberate your joy by finding out how to release grief. Encourage peace, happiness and strength – here’s how.

Weekly Summary

This week on the Battle Drill Daily Devotionals podcast, we explore what it means to be truly happy. Often, the so-called Beatitudes at the beginning of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount are seen as the demands of the Kingdom. In other words, be poor in spirit, be mournful, be humble, and so on, and God will be pleased with you and allow you to enter his Kingdom. But the Beatitudes are more like words of grace. The word often translated as “Blessed” in this passage can be better translated as, “Oh, how happy.” Jesus is saying those who are made happy by God realise their need for him, are comforted by him and will inherit the earth, and so on. So this week we focus on what it looks like to be made happy by God. Each weekday we share hope and encouragement as we read and study the Bible together.

How to Release Grief – Introduction

Many of us have to deal with tragedy at some point in our lives, whether it’s the loss of a job or career, possessions (such as in a house fire) or the loss of loved ones. There are times at the moment when we feel surrounded by tragedy.

How to Release Grief: Held Captive by Emotions

When we do, we can feel very many strong emotions. Grief, anger, loss of purpose or motivation, fear, depression, anxiety and sometimes even guilt. If we don’t deal with powerful emotions like this, then they can take a very long time to recover from. I’ve known people who have never truly dealt with their emotional response to a tragedy in their life and are still suffering the effects over 20 years later.

How to Release Grief: Allow God to Comfort You

Being happy doesn’t mean walking around with a smile plastered on your face. That would be weird if you’d just suffered a tragedy! It’s OK to grieve, even as a Christian. But when it comes to discovering how to release grief, Jesus tells us that God can make people who are mourning happy because he will comfort them. When we are mourning we can cry out to him – we can shout at him if needs be – and he will listen. As he listens, we begin to release our grief and other strong emotions, and our healing begins.

Reflection Question:

• Have you struggled with grief or other strong emotions? How do you think that has affected you?

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This Week on Battle Drill Devotionals

• Monday 9 October – From Heartache to Healing: How to Release Grief and Embrace Happiness
• Tuesday 10 October – Mastering Your Strength Under Control: Achieving Happiness in a World of Chaos
• Wednesday 11 October – Embrace a Joyful Life: Understanding why Forgiveness is the Key to Happiness
• Thursday 12 October – Unlocking Happiness and Integrity: Trail to A Joyous & Upright Life
• Friday 13 October – “Happy Are The Peacemakers”: Unearthing the Joy of Conflict Resolution

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Related Links

• Enhance Your Prayers in Times of Crisis: How to Pray and Listen to God’s Voice
• A Timely and Uplifting Prayer For Happiness In Your Community
• Why It Is Important To Know Your Identity In Christ
• Happiness Begins with Gratitude: What Happens When People are Delighted
• God’s Beautiful Gift Of Grace: Does God Forgive All Sins?

Outgoing Links

• 1. Understanding Grief – https://www.helpguide.org/articles/grief/understanding-grief.htm
• 2. Coping with Grief and Loss – https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/grief
• 3. The Pain of Grief – https://www.healthline.com/health/mental-health/pain-of-grief
• 4. How to Deal with Grief – https://www.webmd.com/special-reports/grief-stages/20190711/how-to-deal-with-grief
• 5. Helping Your Child Deal with Death – https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/death.html
• 6. Grief Counselling: The Grief Process Model: Phases of Grief – https://www.goodtherapy.org/learn-about-therapy/issues/grief
• 7. How Art Therapy is Used for Healing – https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-art-therapy-2795755
• 8. 7 Stages of Grief: How to Cope With Loss And What to Expect – https://www.sclhealth.org/blog/2020/10/the-stages-of-grief/
• 9. Dealing with a Loved One’s Death – https://www.apa.org/topics/grief
• 10. How Exercise Can Help Us Deal with Grief – https://www.shape.com/lifestyle/mind-and-body/how-exercise-can-help-us-deal-grief

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