1. Starting from where you are, do what you can to move toward thanksgiving, submission, and patience.
2. Do not let your grief loosen your grip on the goodness and grace of God.
3. Cry.
4. Tell God your sadness.
5. Pray as you can.
6. Avoid "well-wishers" who try to cheer you up.
7. Talk to yourself or write about the loved one you lost.
8. Know that grieving takes time.
9. Grieve, but do not grieve as people without hope.
-J.I. Packer - from A Grief Sanctified: Through Sorrow to Eternal Hope including Richard Baxter's Timeless Memoir of His Wife's Life and Death
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