Take a few minutes to read this article if you are trying to help someone who is in pain due to the loss of a loved one, break-up, divorce or what ever type of pain.
Encouraging words and tips may seem useless to someone who is in pain. In most cases when youoffer some free words of encouragement that grieving person may decide not to take into consideration a word of what you are sharing.
Regardless of how the person seems to be dealing with the situation, positive talking is a very important healing ingredient. Communicating such words is more like putting a seed into the soil. It can take a while before you see the full results of your hard labour.
Likewise when you try to help someone get through a bad situation, never stop simply because you are not getting the reaction you expect. Don’t stop sharing Christian encouragement words if you know how and don’t think twice about it.
It is harder for a fresh wound to show signs of healing on the first day. Summon all of your strength and patience and help the person the best way you can. For some people, the healing process can take weeks, months and even years – depending on the occurrence or the nature of the grieving person.
I know someone who lost a loved one and spend 24 months crying and mourning – literally. It turned out everything we kept saying to him over the years – in terms of encouragement, helped him to heal eventually. We didn’t know we were making that kind of an impact at the time.
So no matter how useless you think it is to thinking about writing some short sample words of encouragement keep remembering that it is not in vain. Decide today to keep at it until you know for a fact that the grieving person is over what ever distress and heart ache – this will help you feel useful and it will cause you to receive goodness from others in due cause.
