Comments on: The Constance of Change http://malcolmmarler.com/change/ Creating connections with the human family and with God Thu, 09 Sep 2010 03:54:46 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: robert gammon http://malcolmmarler.com/change/comment-page-1/#comment-366 robert gammon Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:02:09 +0000 http://malcolmmarler.com/?p=1524#comment-366 We had a similar experience here in December with the death of a choir member (45), by suicide on a Wednesday morning. Truly, it was an extremely difficult time for the choir members. However, they remained faithful to the task at hand, the christmas music dress rehearsal. Then, they had to sing at his funeral on Friday. They concluded their week by singing the Christmas music on Sunday morning for the family of faith at FBCC. It was a good reminder that everyone handles grief differently. Some put off their grief until the next week; while others sang and cried through their grief at the funeral and Christmas music. The different stages of grief continue to be traveled on different time lines. However, we are traveling the road together. Hoping that our tears of sorrow will soon turn to tears of joy for having known the gift of life lived among us! Postscript: Another choir member just died last week (25) from a single car accident. Now the choir is dealing with overlapping grief. Like your hospital staff, as a leader, I am not used to being on this end of things very often. We had a similar experience here in December with the death of a choir member (45), by suicide on a Wednesday morning. Truly, it was an extremely difficult time for the choir members. However, they remained faithful to the task at hand, the christmas music dress rehearsal. Then, they had to sing at his funeral on Friday. They concluded their week by singing the Christmas music on Sunday morning for the family of faith at FBCC.

It was a good reminder that everyone handles grief differently. Some put off their grief until the next week; while others sang and cried through their grief at the funeral and Christmas music. The different stages of grief continue to be traveled on different time lines. However, we are traveling the road together. Hoping that our tears of sorrow will soon turn to tears of joy for having known the gift of life lived among us!

Postscript: Another choir member just died last week (25) from a single car accident. Now the choir is dealing with overlapping grief. Like your hospital staff, as a leader, I am not used to being on this end of things very often.

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