{"id":33355,"date":"2021-04-20T09:45:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T14:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=33355"},"modified":"2021-04-20T11:54:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T16:54:10","slug":"grief-and-your-child-4-parental-grief-principles-for-sharing-gods-comfort-in-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=33355","title":{"rendered":"Grief and Your Child: 4 Parental Grief Principles for Sharing God\u2019s Comfort in Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Grief-And-Your-Child-Frontcover.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Word from Bob: <\/strong>On August 21, 2021, New Growth Press will release my 23rd book\u2014<em>Grief and Your Child: Sharing God\u2019s Comfort in Loss<\/em>. You can learn more about the booklet <a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/grief-and-your-child\/\">here<\/a>. You can pre-order <em>Grief and Your Child<\/em> at 25% off for $3.99 <a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/store\/grief-and-your-child-sharing-gods-comfort-in-loss\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Why This Frequent Theme?<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Finding hope in loss has been a frequent theme of my counseling, speaking, and writing ministry.<\/p>\n<p>One of my first books\u2014and my best-selling book\u2014is <a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/store\/gods-healing-for-lifes-losses\/\"><em>God\u2019s Healing for Life\u2019s Losses: How to Find Hope When You\u2019re Hurting<\/em><\/a>. Written especially for and directly to the grieving person, in this short book with brief chapters, I contrast the world\u2019s way of addressing grief with the Word\u2019s pathway for our grief journey.<\/p>\n<p>Then more recently I wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/store\/grief-walking-with-jesus\/\"><em>Grief: Walking with Jesus<\/em><\/a>. In this 31-day devotional booklet, I walk through the four Gospels exploring how Jesus grieved and how He ministers to us in our grief.<\/p>\n<p>Why this frequent theme? As I like to say:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>We live in a fallen world and it often falls on us<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And, as Frank Lake said in the 1960s:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Pastoral care is defective unless it can deal thoroughly both with the evils we have suffered as well as with<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We often think about grief and adults, but what about when our children struggle with grief? When they face life\u2019s losses, how do they find hope when they\u2019re hurting?<br \/>\nThe post Grief and Your Child: 4 Parental Grief Principles for Sharing God\u2019s Comfort in Loss appeared first on RPM Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":33365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[263,457,1828],"class_list":["post-33355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpm-ministries-bob-kellemen","tag-children","tag-grief","tag-grieving","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Grief-And-Your-Child-Frontcover-170x300-2-1.jpg?fit=170%2C300&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33366,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33355\/revisions\/33366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}