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How do I get relief from this endless pain? How do I stop being angry or asking why or trying to do the million things that seem impossible?

Grief is like that movie ‘Groundhog Day’ – the same thing day after day after day. It seems like there’s only changes for the worse and that kind of routine starts to wear on you after a while. It also erodes your hope for a future that is different – never mind a happy future.

There are three things that will help you when you feel like all ya got is grief, that life can’t get better, and that God has forgotten you. These things will relieve some of the expectation pressure, help you in your interactions with God and serve as a reminder that tomorrow can and will be different!

This episode is a replay from the top4 most downloaded in 2024. I introduce Coffee & Kathy Weekly Devotionals on Grief 2 Great Day. Replays from last year are available on your podcast app.

WORD of the Week And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you. John 16:22

Song of the Week Never Ever Give Up by Matthew West

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SHOW NOTES - Replay from 2022

A new year but the same pain is another frustrating fact of grief. It reinforces that it’ll NEVER be over. But I’m here to tell you that while the second year isn’t the end of grief (and that tidbit may help free you), there are changes to expect.

If this is in fact a second year for you or if it’s the second month, it’s important for you to listen today to know what to expect in your second year of grief. This is not all flowers and rainbows, but it should give you hope!

WORD of the Week Isaiah 43:18-19

Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

Song of the Week

You Know My Name by Tash Cobbs Leonard - https://youtu.be/t7owFiihXgg

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This is a replay from Episode 62 for those hurting at Christmas!

WORD of the Week Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, I will also help you, I will also uphold you with My righteous right hand. Isaiah 41:10

Song of the Week Somewhere in Your Silent Night by Casting Crowns

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SHOW LINKS

Grief 2 Great Day Website - Connect with Me

Click Here to take Action Now - “The First Year of Grief. How to Survive with Hope and Heal.”

Join The Grief Group for Christian Women on Facebook

Read about Monica’s entire Journey, Dying to Be Healed - Book - Grief2GreatDay

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Y’all – big changes are coming! Today, I’ll be sharing a glimpse of what that will look like for Grief 2 Great Day in the new year.

WORD of the Week "Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing." 1 Thessalonians 5:11

Song of the Week Better Together by FBC Ladies

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Hear from Those Who Have Walked Your Journey! Get the Holiday Grief Relief Summit Recordings

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Click Here to take Action Now - “The First Year of Grief. How to Survive with Hope and Heal.”

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I want to share the full WORD and some lyrics of the Song of the week as the show notes.

This fits our grief journey so well and is more important than any words I could share on the subject.

WORD of the Week 2 Corinthians 3:6-10

3 We put no stumbling block in anyone’s path, so that our ministry will not be discredited. 4 Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships and distresses; 5 in beatings, imprisonments and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger; 6 in purity, understanding, patience and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love; 7 in truthful speech and in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left; 8 through glory and dishonor, bad report and good report; genuine, yet regarded as impostors; 9 known, yet regarded as unknown; dying, and yet we live on; beaten, and yet not killed; 10 sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.

Song of the Week

Less like Scars by Sara Groves https://youtu.be/DXcWZif_8uA

It's been a hard year But I'm climbing out of the rubble These lessons are hard Healing changes are subtle But every day it's Less like tearing, more like building Less like captive, more like willing Less like breakdown, more like surrender Less like haunting, more like remember And I feel you here And you're picking up the pieces Forever faithful It seemed out of my hands, a bad situation But you are able

Hear from Those Who Have Walked Your Journey! Get the Holiday Grief Relief Summit Recordings

Grief 2 Great Day Website - Connect with Me

Click Here to take Action Now - “The First Year of Grief. How to Survive with Hope and Heal.”

Join The Grief Group for Christian Women on Facebook

Read about Monica’s entire Journey, Dying to Be Healed - Book - Grief2GreatDay

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