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Darlene Davis

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05/05/2023 at 18:47 in reply to: What are some strategies you’ve used to overcome worry? Were these helpful or not? Explain.

sharing with a close friend, finding things that I enjoy doing to occupy empty space, talking with God more asking his guidance, direction, protection, and trusting Him to have my best interest at heart because my experiences has taught me that God deeply cares for me.

Darlene Davis

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05/05/2023 at 18:21 in reply to: Have you ever been stuck in one of the stages of grief discussed in this lesson? If so, what was helpful in moving you past that stage?

Yes I went through a divorce and found no comfort from my church organization. People actually shoned me, i pick up on they probably didn’t know what to say so they avoided me. However, I went to God, asked His permission and I did a one day fast, 3 day fast and a 7 day fast. Not consecutively and all without any nourishment at all. I grieved for sometime because I was newly married and after 6 months in I was being mailed divorce papers. I spent 4 years going through the divorce after only 6 month’s of marriage. Bur God led me to reconnect with a friend who at some point we fell out over a misunderstanding. That became therapy for me, unknowingly she had gotten married and had a bad experience and horrible break up, she then went to counseling for 4 years, so by the time God reconnected us, she helped me by just being able to share and talk it through, pray about it. Also having to restart anew. It was God inspired. And by no one else wanting to help I was able to see God more readily and clearly for the path He had laid for me to take. Very humbled and appreciative.

Darlene Davis

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05/04/2023 at 13:27 in reply to: 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?

Sometimes when experiencing loss you come to a place you never known and because of that you don’t always know how to deal, where to turn to, who can understand , all these things and more make coping difficult.