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Reflect on the C. S. Lewis quote: “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” In what ways do you think grief feels like fear? How does that make coping with grief/loss difficult?
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Grief feels like fear because one can feel helpless and without hope. Grief will also cause you feel that no one cares and you are all alone. When grief feels like fear it’s hard to cope. Fear paralyzes you.
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The anxiety grief creates makes it feel like fear. It seems never ending.
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I did not think of grief as fear but I now understand how that can be. A big part for me is the fear of the ‘unknown’ of what death ‘feels’ like. The other big fear is what about my life and my future without my loved one. It is only by trusting that God will never leave or forsake me that I can truly move beyond that fear and begin to find hope and even joy for my future knowing Iam safe in the arms of God.
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I think that we all fear the unknown, and grief is an unknown until it happens to you. We fear our own abilities if we married young and were never alone, never on our on. We fear a future without someone, we have to face our own mortality, we have to stand on our own two feet alone. This is true for loss of a spouse and loss of any relationship where the person is removed from your life.
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Fear of the unknown, What is this going to be like now without ….
