How To Cope With Grieving Family And Friends At Funerals

How do you cope with grieving families and friends?

With great difficulty. It takes a lot of strength on my part. For me it's just being present, I haven't got any words to say. I haven't got any magic or anything like that. It's a presence I bring to it, and the presence is not just me. I think and I hope and I believe that I can only do it because God's presence is what I bring to it. I struggle with the grieving family, I'm also grieving with them especially if they're well known to me. There's a grief of sorrow for the family for going through it. I also bring that hope that with God everything will be well. Whatever is happening now, that all will be well. Julie Ann Archer is very famous in saying that all manner of things will be well, and I bring that faith to it. I trust that my presence does bring some kind of a consolation to the family, especially in a family who are already in a faith venue where prayer becomes a resource of strength, rather than just shear tears. And we can help them in that, and help them to see that God is present. God is there.