Thread by @pastorjoseph

Prophetically speaking, the church needs to help people learn how to process loss & grief. As a nation, we have experienced so much loss and eventually this will catch up with us. We need to learn how to heal through healthy processing of our pain. #thrive #Covidcreate

While re-opening reflects the economic reality of loss of work, could it also be our attempt to avoid processing our pain as a nation? #thrive

From a pastoral care standpoint, the hardest time is not right after the shock of the loss of a loved one. It is in the moments that everyone is gone and we are alone by ourselves trying to wrestle with pain. The time after the funeral is the loneliest.

That time of mourning will come for our nation and the question is whether we will be equipped for it. We are projected to lose over 100k lives and when this reality sets in, will people know how to sit in the pain of the moment with Jesus on their side?

The prophetic church seeks to prepare the body for such a time as this. There is great beauty in God working through our victories, but there is an ever sweeter beauty in God who comforts us in our pain.

“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.”
2 Corinthians 1:3-4 NIV

“And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.”
2 Corinthians 1:7 NIV
bible.com/111/2co.1.7.niv