Tag: grief

This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it….

“It was a girl,” I said after a moment. My voice sounded funny, hoarse and husky. “Mother…

Time elapses differently for the bereaved. It creeps. Every minute had been so fraught, so filled with…

Claire: He reminded me of someone. Someone I lost. Priest: No one’s lost who is not forgotten….

Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give but cannot….

Far too often, family and friends simply don’t “get it”. They want to rush by our side…

God called your name so gently that only you could hear, No one heard the footsteps of…

Death is terrible. So terrible to lose someone. And if you don’t face it, if you don’t…

When the links of life are broken and a child has to part, there is nothing that…

Kisses on the Wind Time heals all wounds they say, but I have one that never goes…

Not every garden blooms as we expected. Despite our care, not every child can thrive. Tears take…

A butterfly lights beside us like a sunbeam, and for a brief moment its glory and beauty…

A parent can never fully explain to another the kind of pain that is felt when a…

How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who…

What was so shocking to me is how common miscarriages are, versus how little I hear them…

Just as it is impossible to explain childbirth to a woman who has never given birth, it…