Grief is Cagey, Yet God is Good
After I read that, sleep was impossible. I lay there, so heartbroken along with my son.
Profound Loss to Precious Memories
I recalled something I'd learned in my grief class about loss—and memories. They told us our profound loss would one day become precious memories.
Cleaning And Organizing–a Different Kind of Grief
Moving forward in life and even in my grieving process has its highs and lows.
A Rose for Mama
I think about my own mother at least once a day. She was a good one. She was wise, intelligent, talented, loving, and beautiful too. I was proud of her. She wasn’t perfect but she was a very good mom.
Finding Closure
Things were so different then than now. Mothers now get to see their stillborn baby and say goodbye to them. I didn't have that opportunity because the hospitals just didn't do that then. They were trying to be helpful, but instead, it extended the grieving.
Run to Him (And Taste and See)
I discovered the terrible loss of a lifetime mate who was the father of my children, was far more difficult than any mountain we’d ever climbed. I remembered those words on the wall by the door in my childhood door: Blessed are you who run to Him. I remembered, and believed. I worked through those lonely harsh days of loss—because grief is work—and began to breathe freely again, just like after a mountain climb and you get to the top.
Profound Loss–To Sweet Memories
How do you get from profound loss to sweet memories, you might ask. I would say from my experience, you work through the grief. It is work to grieve. Don’t try to fool yourself that time alone takes care of the grief, for it doesn’t completely.
Pearls
This was originally posted April 22, 2016 Love that is hoarded molds at last, Until we know someday That the only things we ever have Are those we give away. It’s been nearly three months since my mother in law, Marian Rudberg, left this earth for eternity. I should say Heaven. Everyone leaves the earth [...]
Take Courage!
Have your surroundings been rearranged on you, taking you away from where you’ve been? Was it a move? A new job? A new circumstance you didn’t ask for? I was asked those same questions and it didn’t take me long to remember a time like that. I was recently widowed and a music teacher in [...]
There’s A Longing
A longing for family connection.... She said she had a longing for family. For the closeness of siblings. She had a brother. But she also had a sister—in heaven. Could that sister be the longing? In one of our conversations, Erika my daughter, and I were talking about family as we often do. She said [...]