5 challenges and 5 opportunities for Catholics to live and mourn through a loss:
5 Challenges
- Our ability to work through the grieving process will be tested
- Our life will be changed because of our loss
- Our ability to function will be questioned
- Our dreams for the future may have to be altered
- We will question our reliance on other and even on God
5 Opportunities
- We can learn to use the gifts that working through grief has offered us
- We can realize that change can be an opportunity for newness and growth
- We can explore the new-found strength that can be ours
- We can go beyond ourselves as we face the future
- We will be able to "let go and let God" be in control
