Working Together

This past Monday Steve and I embarked on a scary adventure - working and writing together for three weeks! We have never attempted such a project before, and who knows if we will ever do this again? What caused us to attempt such an activity?

We recently completed another 13-week cycle of GriefShare, the Christian grief recovery support group that we facilitate. The six current attendees expressed interest in continuing to meet, and since some of them had already been through the program twice already, we started to think of an alternative focus. It also became clear that as Steve and I would share some of the insights we had gleaned from our individual studies on heaven, our friends would begin to ask for more of what we had learned on this topic.

During the last year Steve has taught Adult Sunday School on this theme, and last year I guided two Women's Study groups through a book on heaven. For the next few weeks, then, we are attempting to combine our research into one unified resource. We have decided to write a small book/extended pamphlet/curriculum on heaven, and use this as a basis to share with our friends on Monday nights. What better way to help ourselves and others heal from grief than to focus on what our loved ones are experiencing in heaven? There are so many Bible verses that speak to the reality of the afterlife - verses that we might not even notice unless we're specifically looking for them.

Our hope is that this project might benefit us, our GriefShare friends, and others even beyond our church doors. Please pray that we might be productive as we work together!