Grief In Real Life: To The Friends Who Stay

Sticking with a friend whose life is hard and is going to continue to be hard is not for the faint of heart.

Not all wounds can be healed.  

Not all problems have a resolution.

Not all relationships follow a path that leads to a happy ending. 

grief lasts longer than sympathy

So here’s to the friends that don’t give up, that refuse to leave and whose presence remind me that while life is painful, it is also beautiful.  

Here’s to the ones whose commitment to love me in the dark places reminds me that love still lives.  

You’re my lifeline.  

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Author: Melanie

I am a shepherd, wife and mother of four amazing children, three that walk the earth with me and one who lives with Jesus. This is a record of my grief journey and a look into the life I didn't choose. If you are interested in joining a community of bereaved parents leaning on the promises of God in Christ, please like the public Facebook page, "Heartache and Hope: Life After Losing a Child" and join the conversation.

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  1. Melanie, I so heartily feel your heart and agree with you! I lost my Son, Daniel, coming up 10 yrs this July 5th. However, because God is Eternal, it seems like Daniel passed yest. Yet, the dealing with pain got easier! God gave me a Vision of Mary, Weeping as her Son was Murdered on the Cross! As she held Him close to her heart, her tears washed some of His blood away, as she cleaned Him up for burial!

    Then I realized that Yes, God does understand my pain! And I thought, I’m not the only one who’s lost a Son! So I asked the Lord, as part of my Healing my heart, to please show me 1 person a day, who has it seemingly worse than I! Rather in person or on TV., wherever, just so that I wouldn’t become a Victim, have a Victim’s Mentality and feel sorry for myself! Think that I was the only one suffering! And another thing that has helped me, in spite of the fact that I’ve been a Teacher and Minister in the Christian Faith, was the Script. Isaiah 57:1,2

    The Word basically says that (Yes There will be some of God’s Children taken before their time, and we would never understand why! But it was to Save! Save them from something possibly worse, Save family loved ones etc)

    God has also given me little signs that lets me know that He’s in my whole situation and still at work! If I shared how, it would take too much time! But God is a Loving God, though we may never understand all, I’ve come to say, as Job..

    (Yet…….. I will Trust the Lord!)

    Ty sincerely Tonya S Bernitt

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