Comments on: 5 Ways to Deal With Your Thousand Little Deaths https://lisanotes.com/5-ways-to-deal-with-your-thousand-little-deaths/ on Life and Love Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:00:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.9 By: Kim https://lisanotes.com/5-ways-to-deal-with-your-thousand-little-deaths/#comment-328310 Fri, 10 Sep 2021 19:47:48 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=28261#comment-328310 Thank you for this. It’s very helpful to me right now. I have had so many changes in my life the last couple of years. I told my husband it’s like starting over. Actually, it’s worse because there isn’t the excitement that comes with some changes.

]]> By: Nancy Ruegg https://lisanotes.com/5-ways-to-deal-with-your-thousand-little-deaths/#comment-328117 Tue, 17 Aug 2021 22:01:06 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=28261#comment-328117 In reply to LisaNotes.

We can wield our swords together against those unwanted thoughts, Lisa!

]]> By: Nancy Ruegg https://lisanotes.com/5-ways-to-deal-with-your-thousand-little-deaths/#comment-328089 Sat, 14 Aug 2021 20:38:19 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=28261#comment-328089 Your second statement resonated deeply with me: “Let things die.” Too often I’ve allowed self-pity and what-ifs to wreak havoc in my mind when the wisest course of action would have been to take such thoughts captive (2 Corinthians 10:5) and recognize God wanted to teach me new lessons or it was time for a new direction. Thank you, Lisa, for your wise insights!

]]> By: Nancy Ruegg https://lisanotes.com/5-ways-to-deal-with-your-thousand-little-deaths/#comment-328088 Sat, 14 Aug 2021 20:26:29 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=28261#comment-328088 In reply to Barbara Harper.

I love that insight too, Barbara, and must also thank you for sharing!

]]> By: Lois Flowers https://lisanotes.com/5-ways-to-deal-with-your-thousand-little-deaths/#comment-328085 Fri, 13 Aug 2021 22:45:30 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=28261#comment-328085 Oh Lisa … this is where the limitations of the comment section really frustrate me! I wish we could have a nice long conversation about all this. I’m so sorry for the crushed dream that you are mourning … intense disappointment is the emotion that comes to my mind, and that is such a tough one. I so appreciate your five points … such practical wisdom in all of them. Hugs, friend.

]]> By: Donna https://lisanotes.com/5-ways-to-deal-with-your-thousand-little-deaths/#comment-328084 Fri, 13 Aug 2021 21:58:56 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=28261#comment-328084 Lisa, a post that really hits home for me. Between working around death and my own “little deaths”, sometimes I feel like my life is spent wandering among the tombs. But I have learned death is beautiful for it makes way for life. My heart both understands and grieves with you over your lost dream. But nothing we surrender to God is ever really lost; for He wastes nothing and redeems everything. The beauty is in the sacrifice, as you say “God empties the tombs”, but He can only empty that which was placed there in the first place.

]]> By: Jean Wise https://lisanotes.com/5-ways-to-deal-with-your-thousand-little-deaths/#comment-328082 Fri, 13 Aug 2021 19:47:15 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=28261#comment-328082 I am so sorry you are going through this difficult time. I loved what you wrote tho:
Change is a constant. Expect it. Experience it. Grieve it. Go to its funerals

We do need to allow ourselves time to mourn, rest and move on. Holding things lightly is one of my mantras and has gotten me through many tough spots. May God use this small death to resurrect new life within you!

]]> By: Lisa Blair https://lisanotes.com/5-ways-to-deal-with-your-thousand-little-deaths/#comment-328081 Fri, 13 Aug 2021 17:08:56 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=28261#comment-328081 I’m sad to hear of this new uncertainty, “I’m still in the middle of uncertainty with my newest small death. As I mourn, I’m trusting God with my grief. I throw myself on his mercy and goodness.” Thank you for the reminder to trust Him and to throw ourselves upon His mercy.

This is definitely a nugget of wisdom, “Recognizing we’re just temporary stewards of God’s good gifts, not permanent entitled owners, is a healthier way to pass through this world.”

]]> By: Tea With Jennifer https://lisanotes.com/5-ways-to-deal-with-your-thousand-little-deaths/#comment-328076 Fri, 13 Aug 2021 09:32:12 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=28261#comment-328076 Great post Lisa!
Oh, I truly relate to this today for I am not a stranger to grief & loss.
I resonate with your following statement;
“Don’t grab hold and claim complete ownership of children, of money, of beauty. Keep an open hand. We can still love strong, but hold on loosely.”

And dare I say our dreams too, that don’t come to fruition…?
Bless you,
Jennifer

]]> By: Donna B Reidland https://lisanotes.com/5-ways-to-deal-with-your-thousand-little-deaths/#comment-328075 Fri, 13 Aug 2021 03:34:50 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=28261#comment-328075 Lisa, I had never thought of it that way, the idea of small deaths. But we do all have them, don’t we?! I guess I’m experiencing one now as my mother ages and becomes more confused. Of course, there have been many others. And like you said, some healed rather quickly but some seem to linger waiting for something to happen or be said to bring the disappointment back up. Thanks for sharing and giving me a new way to consider life’s disappointment.

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