Steps Toward Closure - Day 237

Steps Toward Closure
Day 237

Closure is crucial to your grief journey, and at some point you must take action to help bring it about. Start by identifying the person, memories, objects, and emotions you have been hanging on to too tightly. Here are suggestions to help you come to a place where you can release these. One idea is to make a scrapbook of memories. Another idea is to do volunteer work in memory of your loved one. You could also give some of your loved one's possessions to a needy family.

Virgil found a way to release his feelings after his wife died: "She died in April, and on Mother's Day the kids wanted to take flowers and go to her grave and just express how they felt. So we sat around the grave site and shared our feelings."

Releasing is not forgetting; it is the act of setting free. Your loved one was such a blessing to you.  Cherish the memories, but pass the blessing on to someone else now.

"Freely you have received, freely give" (Matthew 10:8).

Lord, I am ready to experience freedom. All that I have been hanging on to, I release in Your name. Show me where to go from here. Amen.