Help – and hope – when most needed

‘Grief: Where Sadness and Hope Meet’ is a new addition to Lutheran Media’s collection of booklets. Available as a free print resource or to download, this booklet may be just the right resource for you or someone you know is experiencing grief.

Read ‘Grief: Where Sadness and Hope Meet’ to discover where sadness and hope meet. The following is an excerpt from the booklet:

In all the ways we deal with grief, in all the advice and encouragement we dispense about getting on with life past the loss of a person dear to us – in all these attempts at consolation – we must honour our internal pain. It stands as the natural grief that is generated when we lose by death someone of special significance or importance to us.

Take the pain of grief and cherish it. It is a reminder of the joy and significance of a relationship now physically gone. Such experience of pain is not pleasant, for sure. Such heartache is not something for which we strive. But it is real; it is natural; it is normal, but it is not all there is. Sadness does meet hope.

Lutheran Media has over 50 booklets on a range of topics. Order printed booklets on stress, addiction, parenting, relationships and more at lutheranmedia.org.au/store/product-category/booklets 

To download these booklets as PDFs, go to www.messagesofhope.org.au/booklet-downloads

Tania Nelson is the manager of Lutheran Media.