5 Challenges - Our ability to work through the grieving process will be tested - Our life will be changed because of our loss - Our ability to function will be questioned - Our dreams for the future may have to be altered - We will question our reliance on other and even on God 5 Opportunities - We can learn to use the gifts that working through grief has offered us - We can realize that change can be an opportunity for newness and growth - We can explore the new-found strength that can be ours - We can go beyond ourselves as we face the future - We will be able to "let go and let God" be in control