Hanukkah is almost over and Christmas is less than two weeks away - and whether we like it or not - the season of holidays will occur, no matter how we feel or how much our hearts are broken....
There is no doubt - the death of our children changes
us forever and no matter what you've read or been told, I believe that our
grieving for them will last until we join them.
But, despite our heartache, life does go on, with or
without us, and for those left behind ~ our other children and family members,
and ourselves & it would be even sadder for us not to find joy and peace again.
It's okay and normal to feel as we
do as we grieve (and we all know the way we feel changes in a blink of any eye
on this journey from mourning to joy), but between those moments of
overwhelming sadness, keep a watchful eye out for that little flicker of peace
and joy, that if you welcome and allow it, it will continue to grow; I wish you
can find a little peace this holiday season and know and believe that joy is
possible again, how could it not be..
We were blessed and given the
wonderful privilege of having these children in our lives – be it for the days and weeks when we carried them, or the few moments, days or months after their birth, or for those of us who were blessed to have them for years (even though no matter how many-we all feel it was too few) until their deaths; what
incredible gifts we received from them.
From Cherie Houston, Joyce Floyd and all the moms who are on this Journey from Mourning to Joy...
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