deep inside you surrender, you welcome. You have known life, now you want to know death also. You have lived life, you have enjoyed it. A great trust has arisen in you about life --- and you know death is the culmination of life,...
Since this is a grief website, I'll share a quote from Queen Elizabeth that perfectly sums this up, "Grief is the price we pay for love." Love is the ultimate example of something we do, knowing that it will cause us great joy and great pain. When we love someone, it's with the...
I have made a family of my own now. I have twin girls and a boy and I realise what I have and who needs me now. Death is a sad thing but from death comes a greater learning experience than anyone could ever imagine. As Steve Irwin had said about his mother, " No one in this ...
Deborah Horton, a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, explains how grief is like an ocean. She describes the pain of loss as, “Sometimes peaceful and calm and other times angry and unsettled. Grief comes in waves.” This is where I found myself on Monday, May 18th, trapped in the ...
–Life is too short. –Things are just things. –Time spent with someone = Love. –Attention given = Respect earned. –And no matter what…Always Strive to Be Kinder Than Necessary. MOVING THROUGH GREIF It’s 4am, another sleepless night and I can’t stop thinking about something my bish...
“I just wanted to tell you I love you, Mama.” I take his picture. I capture the sweetness. I grab him, hug him, feeling the cold ocean water on him, melding it to my hot skin. I murmur to him what a sweet boy he is, that he must never lose that. I send him back to ...
to the cross. The whole of it. What agony. This immensity gave me the beginnings of an understanding of his love. His love is big enough to overcome sin. His love is wide enough and long enough and high enough and deep enough to cover not just my sin but all sin, for all the wor...