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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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Both grief and fear are gripping. It can be blinding. Sometimes it’s hard to express yourself during grief and loss because you have a wide ray of emotions and you have to vent.
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I think it’s because you’ve lost a partner who was with you and you could feed off each other by planning and whatever. Now you lost the help and your bye you’re self.
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You don’t know what’s next in your life. You fear waking up, you fear losing someone else, you just fear life in general. It makes it difficult because of all the unknown.
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Before answering this question, I felt compelled to reflect on my emotions during what I would consider one of the darkest moments of my life: my mother and sister’s passing. After my mother’s death, my thoughts were, “What happens now?” After my sister’s death, there was conflict, confusion, and shock between family members and friends. As I ponder on my feelings, I’m able to identify that I felt supported by family members after my mother died. However, I feared change because my sister and I had to change living locations by moving in with my aunt. But, when my sister died, I experienced a lot of fears due to the conflict I had with her husband and close friends of my sister’s. These fears caused my coping with grief very difficult due to focusing more on anger and avoidance.
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As I reflect on C S Lewis statement, I think that as a child, death was scary. There is much we do not know about death and dying. We grieve our losses, realizing we will lose more significant people. in the future. In that loss, we face the future without the companionship and support of the departed one. We miss the insight, support, and love that we are accustomed to enjoying Since there are no do- overs, and there are many unknowns ahead, we will have to face it alone. The loss, grief, and fear will be most successfully navigated with the provision of Christ.
