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FOUR SEASONS BREEZE | OCTOBER 2023 49 It's so delightful to add new ladies to our roster! We have had several wonderful ladies who have recently moved to Four Seasons and have joined our Bible Study group. They are amazing and talented and charming. Thank you to all the new ladies. We are so grateful you have found us. And to all ladies who consistently attend every week, we are so appreciative and thankful for each one of you, the contributions you make to the class, and the joy you bring to the leader and others. As we continue our study of Acts in the New Testament, we are again revisiting the missionary journeys of Paul the Apostle. In October we will be covering Chapters 22 through 27 and will have great discussions and hopefully gain new insight. This is a non- denominational study and any version of the Bible is acceptable. Any ladies out there who have just moved to Four Seasons? Come meet this amazing group of Godly women. You'll want to join too! We meet every Friday from 10:30 to 11:45 am in The Lodge Game Room. Hope to see you soon! ~ Eileen Gilbert-Antoine, (951) 922-6829 or egcellent@msn.com "Believe…" Women's Bible Study Life After Loss Understanding the response to grief is a highly individual matter, much like a human fingerprint. There is no specific timetable to grief. We each grieve in our own way and in our own time. There is no specific way an individual SHOULD or SHOULD NOT grieve. Grief can be understood to mean what we think and feel on the inside when someone/something we love dies. It is the internal meaning given to the experience of pain, the severing of the earthly connection we have experienced in life. Examples of grieving can include fear, loneliness, panic, pain, anxiety, or emptiness. Mourning, on the other hand, can be understood to mean how we act and express ourselves on the outside. It is the external expression given to the experience of grief, how we process the loss of connection. Examples of mourning can include talking, crying, journaling, art, or music. Most people experience grief when someone they love dies but if we are to experience integration of the loss into our lives and experience meaning in spite of the loss, we must do so by grieving AND mourning. QUESTIONS FOR THOUGHT: Have you mourned this death or have you restricted yourself to grieving only? Do you have a difficult time expressing your grief outside of yourself (i.e. mourning)? If so, why? If you have permitted yourself to mourn, what are the ways you have done this? Who or what has been helpful in your mourning? For more information or to join our group, please contact Becky KG at (951) 524-0215, beckykg_1@yahoo.com or Byron Thomsen at (909) 936-7097, byron.thomsen@yahoo.com. ~ Becky Kotzin- Gustafson

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