1. Coping with loss

2. A tear is 1% water and 99% feelings.
Coping with loss
A tear is 1% water and 99% feelings.

3. A tear is 1% water and 99% feelings.
Coping with loss
A tear is 1% water and 99% feelings.
Understanding the Experience of Grief
There are five to seven stages often associated with the grieving process. They may be experienced as denial, pain, anger, bargaining, depression, upward turn, reconstruction, and acceptance. The experience can feel like a roller coaster ride of ups and downs, mood swings, and erratic behavior.

4. Coping with loss
David and Jonathan:
The first time Jonathan saw David in 1 Sam 18
The realisation of what their friendship would costs in 1 Sam 20
Jonathan risking his life to find and encourage David in 1 Sam 23
David receiving the news that Jonathan has been killed.

5. Using images to give voice to grief
Coping with loss : 2 Samuel 1 vv
Using images to give voice to grief
Tell it not in Gath,     proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines be glad,     lest the daughters of the uncircumcised rejoice.
Mountains of Gilboa,     may you have neither dew nor rain,     may no showers fall on your terraced fields. For there the shield of the mighty was despised,     the shield of Saul—no longer rubbed with oil.

6. Using images to give voice to grief
Coping with loss
Using images to give voice to grief

7. Coping with loss
Shower Of Grief
Artist
Karen Elizabeth Bauguess

8. Focusing on good memories
Coping with loss 2 Samuel 1 vv
Focusing on good memories
From the blood of the slain,     from the flesh of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan did not turn back,     the sword of Saul did not return unsatisfied. Saul and Jonathan,     in life they were loved and admired,     and in death they were not parted. They were swifter than eagles,     they were stronger than lions.

9. Focusing on good memories
Coping with loss 2 Samuel 1 vv
Focusing on good memories

10. Focusing on good memories
Coping with loss 2 Samuel 1 vv
Focusing on good memories

11. Retelling to move forward
Coping with loss 2 Samuel 1 vv. 19, 25, 27
Retelling to move forward
A gazelle lies slain on your heights, Israel.     How the mighty have fallen!
How the mighty have fallen in battle!     Jonathan lies slain on your heights.
How the mighty have fallen!     The weapons of war have perished!

12. Coping with loss 2 Samuel 1 vv. 19, 25, 27

13. Coping with loss: 2 Samuel 24
The gift of love
Daughters of Israel,     weep for Saul, who clothed you in scarlet and finery,     who adorned your garments
with ornaments of gold.

14. Coping with loss: 2 Samuel 24

15. Coping with loss: 2 Samuel 1 v 26
I grieve for you, Jonathan my brother; you were very dear to me. Your love for me was wonderful, more wonderful than that of women

16. Coping with loss

17. Coping with loss