Repair Tool #1: Grieving

A Framework for Grieving

You can use this as a worksheet for any loss you need to intentionally grieve. You can write out your prayers, record what you hear from God, or both. This week, start with one loss you need to grieve.

Grieving begins with an acknowledgment that God is here FOR us in our suffering right now. Look up and write down one of these verses:

• Psalm 34:18
• Matthew 11:28–30
• Psalm 147:3
• Psalm 73:26
• 2 Corinthians 1:3–4

What is your "bold lament"?

What did you lose, and what hole did it leave behind? What honest questions do you have about where God was in the midst of it?

Ask God to restore what you feel you have lost. Ask Him to heal that corrupted belief that taught you something ugly, and replace it with what is true. Ask what He might have been trying to tell you then, even though it was drowned out at the time.