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URL:https://junginoc.org/events/2000-12-15-romanyshyn/
SUMMARY:The Tears Of God:  Grief As An Opening To The Divine
DESCRIPTION:The Tears of God:\nGrief as an Opening to the Divine\nPresented
  by\nRobert Romanyshyn\, Ph.D.\nDecember 15\, 2000\nPersonal loss\, partic
 ularly the death of a loved one\, shatters one's life and one's world. In 
 the early part of grief\, and on through the long\, slow winter of mournin
 g\, we exist with neither guarantee nor even promise that life or love wil
 l ever come again. And yet\, it can. Our personal loss can become an occas
 ion for deep transformation if only we surrender to the grieving process r
 ather than rushing to get through it.\nIn this lecture\, Robert Romanyshyn
 \, author ofThe Soul in Grief: Love\, Death and Transformation\, describes
  how the surrender to the grieving process brings one face to face with th
 e figure of the Orphan. In this encounter with the grieving process our fe
 eling of personal loss first deepens\; we are embarking on a journey of ho
 mecoming and relying on the\,figure of the Orphan\, the most homeless of a
 ll\, to guide us home. Much work needs to be done…homework.\nGrief is ho
 mework\, and this journey towards home unfolds to reveal our soul's deep h
 unger for the presence of the Divine. But wonder of wonders\, even miracle
  of miracles\, we come to recognize that our hunger for God's presence is 
 matched by God's hunger for us. We see the tears of human grief and then f
 ind their reflection in the tears of God. In this mirroring\, the face of 
 God and our human face shine as the face of the Beloved.\nWhen we endure t
 he grieving process\, and not just try to rush through it\, we discover we
  grieve because we dared to love. We further discover that we can love aga
 in in an expanded way\, less ruled by fear\, because we have taken the tim
 e to grieve.\nDr. Romanyshyn's new book will be available at the lecture.\
 nRobert D. Romanyshyn\, Ph.D.is an author\, teacher\, and international le
 cturer. In addition to three books\, he has published numerous articles in
  journals and edited volumes. Dr. Romanyshyn has been described as a maste
 r story teller who expresses the insights of the soul with the voice of a 
 poet. His primary interest lies in being a spokesperson for the marginaliz
 ed and neglected values of the soul\, including its longing for beauty\, i
 ts desire for a sense of the sacred\, and its hunger to remember its insti
 nctual\, vegetative\, and mineral roots in nature.\nDr. Romanyshyn is a co
 re faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute and lives with his wife\,
  Veronica\, and two of their four children in Summerland\, California.
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