~ Pat Schwiebert, TCF, Portland, Oregon
Time heals what reason cannot.
In the end, time will change things. The intensity we experience when grief is
new, where we can see nothing but our loss, and where every moment is filled
with thoughts of the one who died will gradually diminish and become
softer. Time forces the big picture of
life back into our vision whether we like it or not.
This happens in our lives all the time. Remember how when we first fell in love with someone,
we were totally preoccupied with only that other person, until gradually a more balanced existence was restored. Or when we did
what we thought was some terrible thing, and we were sure everybody would never
let us forget it, we came to find out a few months down the road that most
people had forgotten the incident.
In the months (maybe years) following a loss, life
will eventually begin to re-emerge and life on this planet will once again
seem possible. This will not happen
because we come to understand the death more clearly but because, with the
passage of time, the unanswered questions will become easier to live with.
Time will not remove grief entirely. The scars of grief will remain, and we may
find ourselves ambushed by an unexpected pang or wave of grief at any time.. often times when you least expect it. But needing to know the answers to the “why”
questions won’t seem quite as important as it once was.
Time is a gift that we have taken for
granted. We’ve been given our lives one
moment at a time. This is good.
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