Parade Magazine, December 1, 2013 Interview with Pastor Rick Warren "The Purpose Driven Diet"
PARADE; This will be your first Christmas without (son who killed himself) Matthew. How are you and your wife approaching the holidays?
PASTOR WARREN: Every holiday when you've lost a loved one is going to be painful, particularly the first year--the first Thanksgiving, first birthday, first Christmas. But we have the Lord; we have our church family; we have each other. The other thing is, we're not hiding our grief. We're walking through it. You can't get over grief; you get through it. I have cried every day since Matthew died. That's not a bad thing. Tears are a sign of love, not weakness.
(At parade.com/warren, you'll find our video of the pastor speaking about his six stages of grief, plus an excerpt and advice from his book, "The Daniel Plan.")
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