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Losses of Biblical Proportions<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Biblical proportions.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOf or pertaining to a natural disaster or other cataclysmic event so immense that it brings to mind\u00a0biblical\u00a0accounts of horrific catastrophes.\u201d (yourdictionary.com)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, fires.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBy extension, of or pertaining to a thing or occurrence having\u00a0<\/span>vast<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>size<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>extent<\/span>, or\u00a0<\/span>c<\/span>on<\/span>sequences<\/span>.\u201d \u00a0(yourdictionary.com)<\/span><\/p>\n

The slaughter of dozens and the harming of hundreds at a music concert. \u00a0The sexual abuse and harassment experienced by countless people throughout our globe.<\/span><\/p>\n

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When disasters are so large that our minds have trouble comprehending them, we often say that they are of \u201cbiblical proportions.\u201d \u00a0And today, our world is in the midst of not one, not a few, but many such disasters.<\/span><\/p>\n

I scroll through pictures of homes, businesses, entire towns destroyed by great water and great fire. \u00a0I gaze at the faces of those killed in Las Vegas. \u00a0And I watch as the words move across my computer screen \u2013 the simple \u201cme too\u201ds, the long lists of names and identifying characteristics of abusers and harassers. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Our planet has been abused. <\/span><\/p>\n

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People run from the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after apparent gun fire was heard on October 1, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. There are reports of an active shooter around the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. (Photo by David Becker\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our bodies have been abused. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And the losses created by these abuses are beyond comprehension. \u00a0They are beyond comprehension, but they are not beyond healing. \u00a0Indeed, we must heal both our planet and ourselves. \u00a0And in order to do so, we need to mourn.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is so much anger, so much outrage, so much frustration related to these disasters. \u00a0Every bit of that is useful, because without it we cannot change. \u00a0The desire to metabolize anger as action propels us to work for change in our communities and our culture, to transform the ways we interact with one another and with our planet.<\/span><\/p>\n

But look more closely at the anger and the outrage and the movement to change. \u00a0<\/span>Feel <\/span><\/i>more closely. \u00a0Underlying and interwoven with all of it is a tremendous amount of grief.<\/span><\/p>\n

We have lost so much, and the need to mourn these losses is as immense as are the losses themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n

But we may not know how to do that, how to collectively feel these losses, how to mourn them, how to honor them not in place of creating change but as a significant component in the ways in which we create that change.<\/span><\/p>\n

I direct these words toward those of us who have had the unbelievable good fortune to be reading them while sitting at our computers in our homes, those of us who have computers and homes. \u00a0These thoughts are offered to those of us whose sexual abuse and harassment is years behind from us, who have had the providence and means to acquire therapy and spiritual guidance and physical healing. \u00a0Those in the acute stages of loss, those picking through the rubble of their homes, those recently and currently abused by others \u2013 their work is different. \u00a0Their one goal is safety right now.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the rest of us? \u00a0Our role is as members of the collective. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Collective Mourning<\/strong><\/p>\n

Because these are collective losses, they necessarily are mourned collectively, even though we often are not aware of this level of connection in our grief.<\/span><\/p>\n

Those of us with access to knowledge and information \u2013 about climate change, about constructions of sexuality and gender, about mental health issues and gun control \u2013 are responsible for these losses we are all experiencing. \u00a0By \u201cresponsible\u201d I am not referring to our complicity in their creation (although I do believe we have quite a bit; that\u2019s a topic for another post, perhaps). \u00a0Rather, I mean that we are able to respond to these disasters; in fact, we are compelled to respond to these disasters.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rarely in our culture do we do much collective mourning. \u00a0We gather for funerals and religious rites. \u00a0Those closest to a person whose life has been lost may assemble to share their losses with one another. \u00a0But for the most part we grieve alone. \u00a0Much evidence supports the theory that this leads to stalled grief. \u00a0As relational beings, we must interact throughout these periods of loss; we must interact through the loss itself by allowing it to draw us closer to one another.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is true of each individual loss \u2013 of a person, a home, a situation. \u00a0And it is also true of our huge, collective losses. \u00a0With these, we have a paucity of traditions to help with our drawing together. \u00a0We may create memorials at the sites of destruction, we may talk with one another online about these horrendous happenings. \u00a0But we need more; we need rituals to honor the mourning, we need periods during which grieving is not only accepted but is prescribed.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Alan Wolfelt, a wise advocate for grief work, contends that those of us who are grieving have special needs (visit <\/span>https:\/\/www.centerforloss.com\/<\/span><\/a> for more information). \u00a0People in previous times and in other contemporary cultures adorn(ed) themselves in specific garments, notifying everyone around of these special needs. \u00a0Rarely in contemporary Western culture do we find people wearing black for years \u2013 even for weeks \u2013 after a loved one\u2019s death in order to honor this period of mourning. \u00a0And we as a collective certainly do not adopt such traditions. \u00a0Indeed, we may not see ourselves as a group of people with the special needs of the mourning. \u00a0But we certainly are.<\/span><\/p>\n

We are one collective body mourning these losses. \u00a0We each have our individual losses related to these disasters, certainly. \u00a0And I do not advocate that we overlook the mourning required by these individual losses. \u00a0That is actually a significant component of working with collective loss. \u00a0But our mourning needs to extend beyond the personal as well, beyond the particular \u2013 to the entirety of loss that is affecting all beings everywhere.<\/span><\/p>\n

How can we do that? \u00a0There are as many ways of participating in collective mourning as there are people on our planet.<\/span><\/p>\n

Grief Models<\/strong><\/p>\n

The absolutely essential first step in collective mourning is to acknowledge that we are, in fact, mourning. \u00a0We must understand the role that loss plays in our behavior as we respond \u2013 or do not respond \u2013 to these catastrophes. \u00a0Recognizing the grief that is interwoven with our calls to action, with our turning away from news stories, with our anger at public officials is essential to the mourning process. \u00a0Without this awareness, we will continue to push our grief down underneath the surface of our psyches, where it can fester and grow throughout our lifetime and across generations.<\/span><\/p>\n

The second component necessary in collective grief work is acceptance of each individual manner of mourning. \u00a0Whenever I work with grieving individuals or lead grief groups, I am insistent that there is no one way to mourn. \u00a0Some temperaments seem better suited to anger than to sadness; some bodies prefer to process grief physically, while others mourn with stillness. \u00a0All of this is not only acceptable \u2013 it is absolutely necessary. \u00a0When we grieve collectively, we not only honor those differences; we also make use of them. \u00a0My ability to cry may be balanced by my friend\u2019s clear channel of anger, for instance. \u00a0As one human body, we have the capacity to touch every aspect of grief, and there is immense capacity for healing in that.<\/span><\/p>\n

Grief models can be more harmful than they are helpful. \u00a0When we study one, we may try to locate our experience within that structure and find ourselves not represented. \u00a0Or we may use these models to judge ourselves and our process, usually finding that we are not \u201cgetting grief right\u201d. \u00a0In addition, most grief models imply that we can become finished with grief, that we somehow reach a level of closure. \u00a0This is untrue and harmful. \u00a0While our grief can and does shift when we honor it through mourning, ritual, and processing, we likely never come to a place of being finished with grief.<\/span><\/p>\n

So I recommend that we use grief models very carefully. \u00a0However, I do still recommend that consult them as a way to educate ourselves about the multitude of forms grief may take. \u00a0This is as true when working with collective grief as it is when dealing with individual grief.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"The first grief and loss model, created by Elizabeth K\u00fcbler-Ross, shed light on these faces of grief: \u00a0denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. \u00a0Each grieving individual has experienced different levels of these reactions to loss, and I see evidence of every one of them in our collective grief today. \u00a0We are in denial when we just cannot read another social media post about any of these disasters. \u00a0Our grief takes the form of anger when we lash out at individuals and groups. \u00a0We bargain that if our planet survives just this one time, we will begin to treat it better. \u00a0The collective depression we hold in response to all this loss is almost palpable. \u00a0And sometimes, some of us may be in acceptance of these losses. \u00a0It is helpful to pause each time we react and respond to these losses, to merely locate our experiences within this framework of loss behavior.<\/span><\/p>\n

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For me, the most useful grief model is Stroebe and Schut\u2019s. \u00a0It acknowledges the two major orientation movements the bereaved may have and divides grief behavior accordingly. \u00a0Some of us feel more drawn to loss-oriented behavior, while others exhibit behavior that is more restoration-oriented. \u00a0In terms of these particular collective losses, this means that many people will mourn in ways that include crying and processing and going inward, while others will mourn through actively rebuilding our world. \u00a0\u00a0In healthy grieving, each of us will work within both realms of behavior. \u00a0We will go back and forth between loss and restoration \u2013 sometimes even within minutes. \u00a0We need both types of behaviors in order to fully express our grief. \u00a0And usually what offers the most healing is to push ourselves in the areas to which we may not be drawn \u2013 to do the more active mourning if our nature is to be passive or vice versa. \u00a0Again, with collective grief, we can honor ourselves and one another by acknowledging the grief that underlies any of our behaviors, by trying to consciously perform them, and by supporting one another in our own unique ways of mourning.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rending our Garments<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since these losses are of biblical proportion, one place to look for guidance in our collective honoring of them is, of course, the Hebrew Scriptures. \u00a0In many instances, the response to a great loss is to rend one\u2019s clothing. \u00a0When Jacob found the beautiful robe of his dear son Joseph covered in blood, he tore his own garment. \u00a0David had the same response when he learned the news of King Saul\u2019s death. \u00a0And Job, whose loss seems unceasing, displayed his response by ripping his clothing. \u00a0On one level, the activity of tearing the clothes we wear provides a physical outlet for the anger and frustration of loss; it feels good to break something in our rage at being broken.<\/span><\/p>\n

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To tear our clothing, though, also provides a more lasting symbol of grief itself. \u00a0Once a garment has been ripped, it cannot ever be un-ripped. \u00a0And even if the most skilled workers were to mend that garment, a close inspection would still reveal the evidence of its tear.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In grief, we are exactly like that. \u00a0We can work tirelessly to put our lives back together after loss. \u00a0And my prayer is that we as a collective will do that \u2013 we will help those who need new homes, we will visit the hurt and the sick, we will hold the hands of those who are courageously exploring and expressing their own trauma of sexual abuse and harassment, of all forms of violence, and of loss of situation and health. \u00a0Together, may we stitch back together the lives that have been torn, ripped, shredded.<\/span><\/p>\n

But these lives, just like those garments, can never be repaired in a way so that we do not know that they were not hurt.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This is true for the Earth. \u00a0The land that was flooded, the land that was burned can never ever be as it was before.<\/span><\/p>\n

The b<\/span>odies that were abused, the psyches of those harassed cannot be as they were before. \u00a0There will always be scars.<\/span><\/p>\n

And in the case of collective grief I know that we absolutely must keep those scars in our awareness. \u00a0We should not work to cover things up, to make things the way they used to be. \u00a0So together let us rend our garments, let us sew them together stitch by stitch. \u00a0But let us never fail to honor the losses and to live into our responsibility to care for our collective grief.<\/span><\/p>\n

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