Christmas is fast approaching so I’m posting this one last time. I hope it helps someone who is struggling to share how hard it can be to “make merry” when a heart is broken. ❤
I know it is hard. I know you don’t truly understand how I feel. You can’t. It wasn’t your child.
I know I may look and act like I’m “better”. I know that you would love for things to be like they were: BEFORE. But they aren’t.
I know my grief interferes with your plans. I know it is uncomfortable to make changes in traditions we have observed for years. But I can’t help it. I didn’t ask for this to be my life.
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The hole is still there after 35 and 33 years.
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Karen, I am so very sorry for your multiplied pain and losses. I have imagined what it may be like to live decades with this missing-but, of course, just like it was impossible to truly imagine child loss before it happened to MY heart, I’m wise enough now to know that my imagination can’t conjure it properly. I pray that the Lord makes HImself very real to you this Christmas season and that He surrounds you with His love, mercy and grace. ❤
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I have four children, the youngest with Jesus, and we help look after her four children. But I am so sorry someone else is in a similarly sad situation. It’s been 20 months and I am still so broken-hearted 💔
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It’s been 35 and 33 years and the whole is still there.
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