Pastoraat in rousmart as bewuste kommunikasie van die emosies van rousmart

Abstract

From the perspective of pastoral care and counselling, one often finds that people experience a lack of meaning in their lives when confronted with grief. The salvation through Jesus Christ, and the way it is incorporated in one's life, doesn't bring existential hope and meaning any more. This article attempts to give new meaning to an old discussion of "grief', the conscious and unconscious mind, as well as the emotions of grief, in such a way that new meaning of life within grief becomes a spiritual way of living, a life coram Deo.