Turning Grief to Meaningfulness

Grief, defined as the pain of mind produced by loss, misfortune, injury or evils of any kind; sorrow; regret, comes almost involuntarily -- but we do not need to be burdened and held down by it forever.  Grief paralyzes and time goes by. The question is, what do you want to do with the time that is going by? What could you do with a right focus and energy? 

When we suffer loss, we naturally grieve, but there is a day that we need to redirect -- use the force of the grief in a turn toward forward moving accomplishment. This direction comes from unselfish motives. Thinking about helping others brings high energy -- enough to succeed. There is an incredible power that Spirit imparts when our heart is set on helping others in some way. 

This may be the day when you think on how to best use your time, and how to use it to help others. Being ready to move on does not mean you are completely over some tragic event, but it does indicate that good is actively supreme and asserting itself. Jumping over the hurdle of paralyzing grief into active good to help others will bless many. Not doing this will deprive them. 

Think about giving your consent to make this change. Think of what you could do to help others and take an action step in that direction. You will feel a peace coming to you even as you think about this.  

Ps. 107:13. "Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses."

Tired of the Pain

Emotional pain, while different than physical pain, can be excruciating. If left to run its own course it can wreak havoc on one's health and tie up the good that might otherwise be done in so many areas of life, and for an indefinite time.

When physical pain is extreme many turn to morphine or some kind of drug for relief, but there is no morphine for the crying soul. In reality, healing is needed, spiritual awakening, rather than something soporific. When one gets tired of the emotional pain, this becomes a turning point.

Often the turning point is accompanied by a redirecting of the force of the afflicting thought-patterns to an energy of philanthropy in a motive to do good to others. To help, heal, uplift, make happy, aid, support, or otherwise bless our fellow-man or other creatures on the planet, supplies recovery power to the honest giver.

What is your top area of interest? How could you envision this helping others? What could you read about or research for hours that would feel like mere moments to you? Connect with this thing.

Ask God to direct and guide you, and then stop talking! In the book of Revelation, when the 7th seal is broken, there is "silence in heaven for the space of half an hour" (8:1). Quiet your thought and listen spiritually. You can do this. Angel messages will occur. You will be guided. "Ask and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full" Jesus taught (John 16:24). Ask what the Father wants you to do to bless others out of a pure heart, and expect to receive ideas that are good. These ideas are blessed and in accord with His will. They lead to unselfish, kind, uplifting, edifying words and actions. They rebuild your life, better and higher than before. They strengthen and bless everyone.

Redirecting thought spiritually with purpose can only work good. It does not indicate that one no longer cares very deeply about a loved one who has suffered misfortune or who has passed, in fact, it honors that one. Right, loving, and good activity goes on eternally and is always blessed of our Father. You may resolve to know that all your endeavors to move forward in this productive and positive manner, all of it shows honor, respect, and love.

The most important thing is to love and honor God which means that one must express the qualities of the I AM through kindness, gratitude, diligence, unselfishness, generosity, pure thoughts, good deeds, grace, spiritual power, affection, intelligence, wisdom, and so forth. This is the nature of the divine, and the true nature of man as God's image (Gen. 1:26). Employed by these things all that you put your hand to is blessed, and all who remain in your heart are blessed.

Tired of the pain? Redirect. Ask. Listen. Act. Bless and be blessed.