Endurance & Hope
"Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope . . ." Rom. 5:3-4 In 1969 Elisabeth Kübler-Ross published her book On Death And Dying where she laid out what we know today as the five stages of grief. I haven't read the book. I have done a light study on the life of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, and I am fascinated by the fact that she herself rarely grieved. I read one of her final interviews before she died and was struck by the fact that she sounded very similar to Job's wife. Her answer to her own suffering was to curse God. And then I guess she died. Otherwise, I know very little about her. But I am very familiar with the five stages of grief, not because I have been through them, but because inevitably somebody suggests them to me. It has been my experience, and I think this is due solely to the fact that the Christian faith is real and our God is real
