Embracing Life Through Death: The Transformational Power of Grief | Griefwalker | Real Stories
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2023
- GRIEFWALKER is an extraordinary portrait of Harvard-trained theologian Stephen Jenkinson, who teaches that death empowers us to live and that we must know grief well in order to appreciate our own lives. Many may find Jenkinson's belief that our deaths are not something to be denied or avoided but 'befriended' as challenging; he points out that not every culture fears death as we do. The film carries viewers into the lives of those confronting death, as well as those learning how to help people die well. Combining beautiful imagery of the impermanence of nature and the actuality of dying, GRIEFWALKER weaves an illuminating picture of a remarkable man and leaves us with a deeper understanding of how our deaths could be held as 'a prized possession.'
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Please pray for me. Prayers all we need truly need in this world. My husband passed away years ago. I’m a single mother. I feel so alone. I have two beautiful sons, both of my sons are autistic. I’m just overwhelmed. Heavenly Father I know you don’t give us no more than we can handle. But Lord have mercy on me. I need a breakthrough. Since covid I can’t seem to get back on my feet. I was fired from my job for declining the vaccine. I declined due to my lupus and I also have a heart condition. I’m waitressing but not making nearly enough. Every month is a struggle not to end up on the streets with my children. I’m struggling putting groceries in my refrigerator. Struggling to pay rent. But, thankfully God has provided this far. I know and have faith he will continue. Faith over fear. We should praise God even in hard times. I love you Jesus! Thank you Heavenly Father.
1 tim 5v16, James 1v27. If you don't have a church that supports and cares for you, find one that will.
You need it and God sees that.
What a friend we have in Jesus. 🙏
I will pray for you today. I’m in Australia and I only have $5 to last me a week or I would honestly help you somehow. All I can give you is my prayers. I hope that goodness comes from it. Bless you Mama. 🙏🏼🫶🏼🧡
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Imaginary storybook creatures in the sky aren't the reason you fail at life. Do better.
Sounds like if you weren't misled by anti vaccine conspiracy theories you still would have your job eh?
I fairly recently got a job working with the dead, and it has really opened my eyes. The people I see had no idea this would be their last day on earth, so I try to prepare myself incase it’s my last day too. I know it will happen, but I’m still terrified of it.
Love from🇮🇳 Punjab🇮🇳 India
This is so profoundly beautiful. I've had many losses. The loss of myself with chronic illnesses. The loss of both my parents. The loss of friends. It's a refreshing way of looking head on into the future. Acceptance. To let go. To let the universe take over. And above all, thank and take care of mother earth. I'm just blown away with the amazing delivery of this documentary. Thank you
This is a very beautiful and wise documentary. I love the cinematography and it's very thoughtful. I want to approach my own death the way Aldous Huxley, Lou Reed and David Bowie did. I want to die in a mystical experience. Feel myself become one with the All and disappear like a drop into an ocean.
This was truly beautiful, thought provoking, heartbreaking yet cathartic....
Loving my born first breath ❤️
Loving the life of my last breath ❤️
I'm grateful
Thank you 😊
I've lost about 80%-90% of my family to cancer and grief has been my shadow almost my entire life. I'm not good with acceptance. I suffer from PTSD from the losses I've experienced. I've been a nurse for 25 years and try to relieve that pain as much as possible for others but it stays with me always.
I’m so sorry to hear that… I’ve had a few deaths in the family but I can’t imagine how difficult it must be to lose a great deal of your loved ones and to such a wretched illness. I bet your work is very rewarding and keeps you going… You will see your loved ones again- Revelation 21:4🤍
@@rayna3244 yes, I do enjoy my work. And I still am blessed to have my mother, my husband and 4 kids and as long as I still have them I have to be okay. I appreciate you 🙏
You need to care for yourself , sometimes , too. Try to vent your distress in order to cope with it .Cancer got my mother , too .It is a truely cruel thing , and I can understand how it affects us long after our loved ones Pass.Sorry about your Familly .I hope you find strenght in the comments people made for you.
@@kenadams5504 thank you... I do try. But every time a new death happens, it drudges up all previous losses, unfortunately.
I understand. One's parental family was our foundation for life. I, too, have lost 90% of my childhood family and struggle with the 😔 grief.
I've recently decided that maybe I have not, emotionally, "let go." We think we have mourned their loss. Is this the same as grieving? IDK.
I think, somehow, I must stop thinking of the good times (and unresolved) times. I must stop wishing that it could have been different. I must accept my mistakes and theirs so that I can become free to live my remaining years in peaceful awareness that life is never planned. It just happens, and everyone does the best we can. I'm not sure that I truly know how to grieve, and my instincts tell me I have more emotional work to do.
Best wishes to you, sister.❤❤
I fear more the death of others than mine. I was very close to die and i was prepared, no rage, no fear just acceptance.
i fear death only cause i still have small children....
@@KlaunFuhrer-du7fr Oh dear, i forgot to say that i dreamed having children but i do not achieve that. Having children is the biggest reason to take care of yourself and live. Love, light and health from Portugal. 🌹
This movie was released in 2008. Stephen Jenkinson has written a few great books since then.
Just Enjoy Life While Your Here
I cannot imagine the anguish of those parents losing their baby daughter. I'm a complete mess just watching... it's very hard to bear. Children should never have to experience that pain and suffering and losing their lives so soon... an absolute tragedy and clearly life is unfair.
Immensely helpful questioning, challenging and advice on the importance to life of grieving and confronting myself about my fear and unconscious anxiety about dying.
I think of grief’s impact on my soul like surgery’s impact on my body: lots of scar tissue results from a surgery that needs copious massage, stretching and time to regain my lost flexibility. Grief needs time and a willingness to confront my original family’s Old World training in “stiff upper lip” to loosen and undo. I didn’t want my long history of lost feeling of sadness, fear and anxiety. I resisted myself that way, and resistance became unconscious!
Time alone, being, rather than doing, reading and feeling. Passivity can be, as John Keats realized, a noble activity, little appreciated in a culture so well-trained in resistance to the feelings that make us humans.
Ive had 5 losses this past year... My husband, my 2 best friends, and 2 other good friends... it's suffocating at times... i wish i could understand better, i really do. My parents think ive developed ptsd, but, i don't like labels. Idk.😮
Stay strong ❤
Having almost died I came to terms with it I live everyday as I want. When my number comes up, have requested that my body is given to science and that surgeons, junior Drs or nurses can find a use for bits of me I would be happy. Very interesting video thank you for posting it 2x👍 BTW I didn't see any tunnels or bright lights or someone calling my name. it just went dark.
Same here.😮
Until it's time for us to come get you, live well.💜
Thank you for sharing this intimate conversation
Grief is a gift 🙏🏼
Explain…
Grief is the price you pay for loving…
That’s crazy this us the first video I saw when I woke up. I cried for my deceased son last night in my sleep. I woke ip only because my pillow was wet. I wonder why. I hadn’t cried about him in months 😢
Synchronicity
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THIS EARTH IS NOT MY HOME I AM JUST PASSING THROUGH FROM LIFE TO DEATH AND UNTO LIFE EVERLASTING WITH THE LORD GOD JESUS CHRIST THE TRUE KING ON A NEW EARTH AND HEAVEN FOR ETERNITY
Amen.
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You are not living in single life actually we are dreaming our multiple lives and every lives in a dream different different dreams that's why I said don't suffer just enjoy your life journey bcz we are standing a point and we are caged in and surrounded by many mirror every mirrors showing our shadows and surprisingly our every shadows doing different different role play in their many lives in the multiverse
This concept come from Hinduism and i proud to be hindu, ofc World's oldest religion will always give you answer of your questions Thank you...🙏
Both my partner and my dog are in their twilight years, and I don’t think in going to be able to cope when the time comes. Will this video help me?
@@SueBoo2 I appreciate you. But my weak mental health won’t be able to focus on that :(
@@SueBoo2 let’s hope 🙏🏼
You might think about getting another dog to help you transition through the losses. Get the new dog before your partner and other dog are gone. My mother's dog helped me get through the time when she died. He came to live out the rest of his life with me .
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What is inevitable…
Matthew 16:25 KJV 25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
When I became a Born Again Christian, my questions about life and death were answered by God through His Word. He are pilgrims passing through a sinful world. There is nothing in this life to "hold on to". Just live for God! Death then becomes just a passageway to the Father. But don't be deceived, Jesus Christ is the only door.
While he has some points, the guy is too arrogant and cocky for me to take him seriously. He's very full of himself. And too sure he's got all the answers...
I was reminded of Robin Williams watching this!
It’s called wisdom , experience and eldership.
We all came from death
I came from life, two wonderful beings who were strong enough to survive a War, forced migration leaving everything they had behind. I came from Love.
The one who lived on life as a man wivout sin,he conquered Death & has promised to wipe away every tear & mourning will be no more...The heavenly Father,The essence of Love itself has promised we'll see our Loved ones again...xx
Age & Death are like a dent in our Geneology...Consequences of the original sin...The same sin that caused the wicked one,Lucifer to rule the World as we know it....Earth is centre stage 4 the battle of good & evil ;It will get worse 'cos the wicked one knows his days are numbered,first all religion will be banned,and War worse than this Earth has ever known; then the wicked one & his mignons will be bound up & flung in2 the
Abyss...4 a thousand yrs...
Bible Truth...is wild but heart warming..The inspired word from the one who knew us in the womb..Our heavenly father,.In Christ his first born sons name...Who paid the price 4 the sin & overcome Death ..That we may have life, everlasting as Our Creator intended 4 his most intelligent creation Humans...Where Our Earthly Home will be cared 4 respected, a paradise, &:Animals will befriend us...xx
GOD JESUS IS NOT RELIGIOUS HE IS THE ONLY CREATOR AND SAVIOUR OF ALL HIS CREATION TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN HIM
Not
I KNOW WHEN MY BORN AGAIN CHRISTIAN FRIENDS KNOW WHERE THEY ARE GOING AND SO DO I AND THE GRIFE IS LESS WE WILL MISS OUR LOVED ONES BUT IT SOON PASSES THE GRIEF FO WE KNOW WE WILL BE TOGETHER AGAIN WITH THE LORD JESUS
IF YOU KNOW THE LORD GOD JESUS YOU HAVE HIS WORD AND THE HOLY SPIRIT THERE IS NO FEAR OF DEATH BECAUSE YOU WILL BE WITH HIM AFTER YOU DIE
WE are not made to die --- We are made to LOVE. Our souls are eternal and they never die -- we are not just made up of a physical body. Where does the live force come from? Where does that energy go when it leaves the body? Albert Eisenstein - "Energy can neither be created or destroyed". Steve is a white guy not an Indian --- he has a culture why does he not embrace that? Does he think that Irish don't have an ancient culture? I have a culture and an identity --- I am a Christian. I wish more Christians would actually STUDY CHRISTIANITY and the Gospels and not look towards a corrupt church. I don't know where this guy gets his ideas from -- were does it say we die as a punishment???
"for the wages of sin is death"
The punishment of Adam being to die etc
Just because you belong to a certain race or culture does not require you to embrace your culture, nor does it mean you can't embrace other cultures. I'm ethnically Jewish for example, yet I rarely embrace Jewish culture nor do I practice Judaism (I'm an atheist, as are many ethnic Jews). And you're free to believe in Christianity, but that does not mean that is objectively the truth nor does it mean that everybody else has to be Christian. That is your own personal opinion.
JOHN 3: 1-21 KJV BIBLE
Please reporting on this issue of India
Christian missionaries convert trieb & poor hinddoos by temptation and greed provides medical facility & education
sound too quiet
Turn it up.
@@RedHiker22 Sorry i can't hear you
Yeah.... some good stuff in this... but just a bit too much "spirit, soul, of the cloth, God, praying" for some of our scientific minds.