It took me a little while to realize that if I was going to survive this lifelong journey I had to make some changes in how and when I responded to requests to do something, be somewhere or participate in outside events.
Because no matter how worthy the request, there was only so much of me to go around and I was forced to spend nearly all my energy and time and effort on figuring out how this great wound was impacting me and my family.
I cannot overemphasize how much strength and energy is needed to do the work grief requires.
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Oh, Melanie, how very much I relate to this message.
It is inching close to what would have been Christina’s birthday and I can already feel the winds of change in the air.
With the loss of so many young lives this 4th of July weekend as the results of the floods, I have been catapulted to the early days of grief.
How many mom’s and families must now enter into the life they did not choose and navigate their own personal raging waters.
May God be near them to offer his peace and may they be embraced and held by their loved ones.
And may the prayers of all of us who have been there somehow touch their aching spirit and offer our unending love.
God bless you dear one.
Much love,
Isabel, Christina’s mom
“I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.” ― Audrey Hepburn http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/692403.Audrey_Hepburn
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Sorry! That should have read a life wound.
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I often think the pace of life these days is detrimental to emotional health from the get-go. Adding a life to that pace must make life not just unhealthy but crushing.
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