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Mi Heart Bruk

Fi when yuh lose somebody. No rush, no pressure, an no one right way fi grieve. Tek yuh time. Yuh still held.

“The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart.” Psalm 34:18

Who yuh a grieve?

Small small, dis week

  • Eat someting, even if a likkle. Drink some wata.
  • Mek people help. If dem offer fi cook fi di nine night or di repast, seh yes.
  • Sleep when yuh can. Rest nuh mean yuh love dem less.
  • Cry when it come. Laugh when it come too. Both a love.
  • If weeks pass an yuh still cyaan sleep, cyaan eat, or cyaan get outa bed, tell yuh doctor. Grief can need help too.

Fi di nine night an di funeral

Plenty Christian families gather fi sing, pray an share memory. Some hymn weh comfort families fi generations:

  • Abide with Me
  • It Is Well with My Soul
  • What a Friend We Have in Jesus
  • Blessed Assurance
  • Amazing Grace
  • When We All Get to Heaven

Couldn’t reach home fi di funeral? Light a candle where yuh deh, play di hymn dem, call di family pon video, an grieve right deh so. It still count.

If yuh a comfort somebody

💚 Wah help
  • “Mi deh yah.”
  • “Mi a bring food Tuesday.”
  • “Tell mi bout dem.”
  • Just siddung wid dem. Quiet alright.
🚫 Wah nuh help
  • “Everyting happen fi a reason.”
  • “God did need another angel.” (People nuh turn into angel.)
  • “At least…” anyting.
  • “Yuh fi done cry by now.”
💛 If di grief mek yuh feel like yuh cyaan go on, or yuh a think bout hurting yuhself, please reach out now: call or text 988 (US, any hour), or call 119 inna Jamaica. Talk to yuh pastor or a grief counsellor too. Yuh nuh haffi carry dis by yuhself.

Di Scripture dem come from di King James Version. Nutten yuh tap yah so nuh save or send.
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