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Give Away Seven a Day

You’re afraid of death.

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You’re afraid of death, so you listen to lies about it. Lies like:

  • Death is just a natural part of the “circle” of life.
  • Grieving parents need time to find a “new normal”.
  • It’s best not to talk about it in front of the kids.
  • You can skip the funeral since your going won’t change anything.
  • Those orphaned children will be ok, right? Right?
  • A widow will learn to move on without her husband.

Lies.

Someone needs to say NO.

This isn’t ok… we won’t be “fine”.
Death is so very wrong.
This is not the way it’s supposed to be.

We don’t have to repeat the lies until we believe them.

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You’re afraid of death, but death doesn’t get the last word.
Here is truth:

There is One death that changes everything.
There is a grave that is now empty.
When Jesus rose from…

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Published by Katharine

Katharine is a writer, speaker, women's counselor, and professional mom. Happily married over 50 years to the same gorgeous guy. She loves cooking amazing homegrown food, celebrating grandbabies, her golden-egg-laying hennies, and watching old movies with popcorn. Her writing appears at Medium, Arkansas Women Bloggers, Contently, The Testimony Train, Taste Arkansas, Only in Arkansas, and in several professional magazines and one anthology.

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