Sermon Illustrations about Sadness
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Novelist Describes the Pain of Miscarriage
In Elizabeth Strout's novel The Burgess Boys, a young woman named Susan has a miscarriage. After learning that the baby was a girl, her husband tries ...
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Man Saddened that Friends Can't Share His Grief
The British novelist Julian Barnes tried to capture the loneliness of what he calls "grief-work." After thirty years of marriage, his wife Pat died from ...
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U.S. Suicide Rates Rising Sharply
A May 2013 article in The New York Times notes that "suicide rates among middle-aged Americans have risen sharply in the past decade." Here are the stats ...
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Stats about the Prevalence of Depression
However we choose to define depression, both its frequency and its disruption of normal life are staggering. The World Health Organization named depression ...
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Ambulance Driver Reflects on Newtown Tragedy
[Shortly after Christmas 2012], I addressed the New England town of Newtown, Connecticut, a community reeling from the murder of 20 schoolchildren ...
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Is Grief a Form of Mental Illness?
The New York Times ran a moving article about a professor whose son died from a drug overdose. There's a lot to mull over in this article, including ...
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Father Explains Death to His Son
In the fall of 1991, a car driven by a drunk driver jumped its lane and smashed headfirst into a minivan driven by Jerry Sittser. Sittser and three of ...
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Children's Book Character Carries His "Sadness Shield"
We all seem to need a strategy for coping with the experience of grief. In the screen adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's book Where the ...
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Every Person Has Experienced Heartache
I don't think any of us get off this planet without suffering enormously. And one of the chief ways we suffer is by loving people who are incredibly limited ...
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Why Women Are Turning to Antidepressants
A 2011 USA Today article reported that the "use of antidepressants has soared nearly 400 percent since 1988, making the medication the most frequently ...
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