{"id":33264,"date":"2022-09-10T20:42:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T01:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/9-tips-to-help-military-widows\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T20:42:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T01:42:07","slug":"9-tips-to-help-military-widows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/9-tips-to-help-military-widows\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Tips To Help Military Widows"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Meeting with a group of military widows, I listened to their stories and the cries of their heart in their new life alone. The list of how we can help could be long. I\u2019ve tried to condense those into these 9 tips.<\/p>\n

1. Stay connected. They loose much of their \u2018community\u2019 without the military connection of their husbands. Even in their church, many feel invisible. A likely geographical move may heighten their sense of isolation at this vulnerable time.<\/p>\n

2. Please don\u2019t judge me! Grief makes any widow feel crazy at times, and behavior– well–emotions are intense. Decisions are influenced by the nature of their husband\u2019s death, their age, their children\u2019s needs, and so much more. Even others within the military community might not understand. Certainly those outside of the military community should not presume to understand all they are experiencing.<\/p>\n

3. Don\u2019t assume that your political views are shared by the surviving family of the service member killed in combat.<\/p>\n

4. Don\u2019t assume that \u2018family\u2019 means \u2018biological family.\u2019 Military widows told me that their military family became primary family to them. They understood, helped pack, connected during long deployments, and even after loss, were the family they needed nearby.<\/p>\n

5. Realize that money and other benefits don\u2019t mean financial security. Even widows who\u2019ve been writing checks at home may not be well versed in investing insurance needed for the long run. Yes, \u2018vultures\u2019 appear who have a \u2018great plan\u2019 for that widows money.<\/p>\n

6. Don\u2019t ask specifics about their husband\u2019s death! This is private information. They will only share it with those close to them who have earned their trust. To ask about injuries is simply rude. Curiosity is about your curiosity, not their comfort and their needs.<\/p>\n

7. Chaplin does not mean spiritual advisor. Increasingly military support services upon widowhood can not be Christ centered. The widow\u2019s hunger for spiritual support and encouragement will not come through traditional military channels.<\/p>\n

8. Recognize that her identity was greatly invested in her husband\u2019s career. The uniform represented stability, security, and provision. That is gone and with it the sense of all three. Her future depends on her choices to replace the source for those in her life.<\/p>\n

9. What she\u2019d most like to hear are these words: \u201cWhat do you need today?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Meeting with a group of military widows, I listened to their stories and the cries of their heart in their new life alone. The list of how we can help could be long. I\u2019ve tried to condense those into these 9 tips. 1. Stay connected. They loose much of their \u2018community\u2019 without the military connection … Continue reading “9 Tips To Help Military Widows”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}