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Resolving grief is impossible

By: Thomas Schmidt

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March 3, 2014

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Grieving is never resolved, never finalizes our sorrows. That is my 35 year experience with dealing with it and counseling professionally.

Depression comes through denial of grief, with frustrated grief. Grief has taught me much more than “Make haste” or “don’t wait, it may be too late.” That is one lesson, but there are others that I find very valuable too.

It has helped me take a look at resurrection and the afterlife, and has led me to, I hope, an intellectually and emotionally honest and congruent view of both, at least for me. It has also helped me see god in others, to see them as my equals, to see the Unity of All.

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Thomas Schmidt

Thomas Schmidt is a retired psychotherapist and chemical dependency counselor who belongs to the Sufi Ruhiniat International order of Sufi’s and is a drummer in the Spokane Sufi group and an elder at the Country Homes Christian (Disciples of Christ) Church. He is a member of the Westar Institute (The Jesus Seminar people). He studied for the ministry in the late 1950’s at Texas Christian Church and twice married Janet Fowler, a member of a long tern TCU family and a Disciple minister. He was active in the Civil Rights Movement, studying philosophy at Columbia University and psychology in the University of North Carolina university system. He has taught philosophy and psychology, and was professionally active in Florida, North Carolina, and, for 25 years in Spokane. He has studied and practiced Siddha Yoga, Zen Buddhism and, since the mid 1970’s, Sufism and the Dances of Universal Peace. He has three sons and three grandchildren. With the death of his wife, Janet, he is continuing their concentration on human rights, ecology, and ecumenical and interfaith reconciliation.

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