This Week’s Listener Question:
There was just another school shooting in Nashville, TN. How do I deal with the helplessness and overwhelming sadness I keep feeling? How do we keep going and trust God when bad things keep happening all around us?
How do you deal with the overwhelming helplessness that comes when we’re hit with tragedy? Many of us employ the strategies of avoidance, denial, and control, which usually comes out sideways. (Like micromanaging the spatula drawer).
What if we were to embrace the sadness and anger and try to trust?
Small Group Questions:
1. What feelings are coming up for you when you hear the latest news?
2. What strategies have you found to be helpful when you’re connecting with your real parts of sadness or anger?
3. How do the themes of death leading to resurrection inspire or encourage you?
4. Be honest and ask yourself – What does my soul need right now?
5. What’s a small invitation of self-compassion you could take this week?
Invitations:
· Join our Good Friday Prayer Walk on April 7, at 3:00 PM in Lafayette, CO or wherever you live. To register and receive our 10 Step Faith Walk visit:
https://www.3oclockwakeup.com/good-friday-prayer-walk
· Pray for Nashville Tennessee. Here are specific prayer requests:
o Pray for grace, peace, and comfort for grieving families and faculty members.
o Pray for wisdom and discernment for parents who are having difficult conversations with their children.
o Pray for adults and children healing from the trauma they’ve experienced.
o Pray for grace and peace for law enforcement and first-responders.
Pray for the Nashville community that they might find HOPE in Jesus.
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