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Grief Speaks Grief Speaks is a resource on grief, loss & healing created by Lisa Athan, M.A. Lisa is a grief counselor and national speaker on grief and loss.

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GriefSpeaks.com Lisa Athan has a Master's degree in Counseling and is a Grief Recovery Specialist. She is a national speaker on grief and loss for adults, teens and organizations. She is often brought into schools, colleges and businesses to facilitate a workshop on grief and loss and how to support students, adults and co-workers. Her passion is to normalize grief and to help people to understand their own grief, learn to be compassionate and gentle with themselves and others and to learn tools and strategies that support healthy healing. Lisa does individual and family grief sessions on Zoom, FaceTime, and phone. To schedule an appointment go to Lisa’s website where she has compiled an extensive collection of resources on grief www.griefspeaks.com

So true
10/10/2026

So true

Always
10/10/2026

Always

Still
10/08/2026

Still

Grief is tricky that way
10/08/2026

Grief is tricky that way

10/08/2026

THE UNWELCOMED VISITOR

Grief is the unpleasant Visitor who drops in whenever it wants.
Never a warning; all of a sudden, it's just there, causing that horrible pain in your chest!
You think your heart is going to break.!
You try to close the door on it but it just won't leave until It beats you down into Wells of despair; despair so deep that when it finally releases you, you're exhausted, both physically and emotionally clutching your chest, gasping for air!
Little by little it let's you go.
You beat it away until it chooses to come again.
~M. Smith

This
10/07/2026

This

Grief support
10/07/2026

Grief support

Love this
10/07/2026

Love this

Musings, Why They Matter By David Anderson Three American Ibis, their long white wings bearing them away through the ear...
10/06/2026

Musings, Why They Matter



By David Anderson



Three American Ibis, their long white wings bearing them away through the early morning fog, soared above grassland ponds, their flight reflected in the waters below. The ibis is known as “the hurricane bird,” according to coastal folklore, because legend says the ibis is the last animal to take shelter before a storm hits and the first to return afterward.



Withstanding the fierce onslaughts of hurricane’s severe windstorms are the Southern Live Oak, these ancient stalwarts living typically 300 to 500 years. The Angel Oak Tree in Charleston, South Carolina, with its sprawling root system, is estimated to have survived over 1,000 years.



Peeking from behind the limbs and leaves of one such aged warrior, the sun created shadows that stretched across the landscape as early evening drew on.



Not far distant, a Gulf Fritillary, or passion butterfly, bright orange with striking silver-spotted underwings, landed on its favorite flower, spreading its wings, the highest point of the roof behind the beautiful butterfly bearing a cross, indicating this was a church yard.



In stark contrast to the oak, the lifespan of this beautiful, winged creature is but one month.



Musing about such matters – life for some being long yet with its accompanying storms, or a beautiful life too brief and gone too soon, in either case, however long, life being as it is so often characterized by distress and doubt – the Psalmists provide perspective, before we fly away.



Nine times in Psalm 77, the worship leader Asaph, to whom this psalm is attributed, writes, “I will remember.”



When my heart is overwhelmed, I will remember.



When I question whether God will be favorable no more, I will remember.



When doubts assail and fears prevail, I will remember.



I will remember God who is ever faithful.



David Anderson is a retired pastor who writes "to bring hope to people in crises, to bring encouragement to those who’ve loved much, lost much, and desire to experience the joy of living again."

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Last Boat RideBy David and Charlotte Anderson“This will probably be my last boat ride.”It was, but we didn’t know it at ...
10/03/2026

Last Boat Ride

By David and Charlotte Anderson

“This will probably be my last boat ride.”

It was, but we didn’t know it at the time. No one does.



There was barely a ripple on the lake that warm afternoon, and hardly another boater out and about. We, their guests that day, had it all to ourselves: the island-sprinkled coves and forested shoreline beneath a now-and-again cloud that never blocked the sun.

A more beautiful day could hardly be imagined.


Unless it was three weeks later along another shoreline some 400 miles away.

There too an unobstructed sun, this time rising from the sea, turned the sky orange, heralding a new day.

A lone seagull soared toward the horizon and then was lost from view.

An ebbing tide washed the sand clean, the departing bubbles appearing like a sequined pattern of dainty lace with delicate beaded embroidery, the train of a wedding gown upon the shore.

Over 60 years ago - the train of her own wedding gown curved about her feet - she had placed her hand in the crook of his arm having been, moments before, announced as husband and wife.


Today, the phone rang.

He wanted us to know.

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Giving Voice to Values
Community Matters
Connection, Community, Civic Engagement
[email protected]

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