We can find relief from grief with the help of the Higher Holy Spirit Self.

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Grief is one of the most painful emotions we can experience.

Grief can be so stressful that we’re completely overwhelmed and cannot think straight.

Grief is complicated at best, and still, we can break it down and find our way back to Peace and happiness.

Grief doesn’t have to last.

We can grieve so hard when we’re convinced we’ve lost something intensely valuable, and it’s lost forever.  That can happen when someone passes away, it can happen when we lose a job, or when we lose a physical ability.  

When you are weary, remember you have hurt yourself.  Your Comforter will rest you, but you cannot.  You do not know how, for if you did you could never have grown weary.  Unless you hurt yourself you could never suffer in any way, for that is not God’s Will for His Son.  A Course in Miracles T-11.III.1. 

Part of what makes it so painful isthat we lose our sense of identity when there’s a strong belief in loss.  When we lose the thing that we think made us who we are – our job, our spouse, our child, our parent – who are we without them?  

When we’re grieving intensely, it’s hard to remember the simple truth that:

Always, Spirit is active for us, on our behalf.  

Always, Life is for us and not against us.

Always, everything is working together for our good.

Our opinions, our perceptions and our perspective argue with these simple truths.  Our analysis has led us to a different conclusion.  We like to be right about our analysis.  

However, if the data is faulty, can the conclusion be correct?  

It cannot.

As long as we believe life is against us, that’s our experience.

Fortunately, we can learn to go the other way.

Our willingness is all that’s required.

The suffering can end.

“War is over if we want it.”