September Blog
A HeartWork Testimony
Have you heard about “HeartWork” yet? Sometimes men and women experience trauma at the death of their spouse, and it complicates the grief process. Sometimes it even stops it. But in HeartWork, we use a combination of a person’s story of loss and an Inner Healing Prayer to address the trauma and let Jesus heal it. Listen to Elisa’s experience.
Hi! I’m Elisa Hawkinson, I’m from Bothell Washington and I just completed a wonderful weekend at the HeartWork retreat. And I want to tell you about it.
So it was offered to me over the last session, and I said, “No, because it's for traumatic experience of a widow.” I thought that meant you had to find your husband, you had to find him dead in the morning or come home and find him dead in the bathroom. But I went to a luncheon and the widows said, “You really should go, Elisa.” I felt the Lord say, “Go.”
And so I was—I came, and I was going, “What are you going to do, Lord? I want You to do what You want to do to kind of clean me up—what’s left—so I can be all you want me to be.”
Oh my gosh! If you think of a ball, a nautical ball, that they use sometimes for decorating, and my insides were kind of knotted up, because I had a complicated grief.
I was married twice—a wonderful first marriage, not such a great second marriage. There were some difficult, very difficult times, and Mary Beth helped me to understand it was complicated grief. I didn't know how to get out of it.
This weekend the ball came undone. There's peace and joy. And the Lord—what I had never done before was that, “Where was Jesus in this part and that part?”
So, I discovered something, I won’t tell you what, but with my husband. It was very awful. I felt like it had just thrown me like, “What?” And I felt like Jesus was just there to catch me. So, it’s like finding out where Jesus was through the process—it’s about 16 years that involved 6 moves. It was very traumatic. He's there holding me up, by my arm. I just have a whole new relationship with him, whole new freedom, I’m a new person. I have purpose in my life. I’m excited about what I'm doing, helping a lot of widows to get organized and downsize and declutter.
So, thanks again Mary Beth for this weekend. It was awesome!
As we have opportunities to help with the traumas of those who have lost their spouses, we are including this method in a book by the same name – “HeartWork: Healing the Trauma of Losing Your Loved One”. We hope it will bless many, as it has Elisa. She said, “Jesus was there to catch me.” He always is, but sometimes we just need help to see Him there.
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