How can I not speak about grief?
This picture says a lot about my journey – especially the baseball cap. And as I look at it I can revisit the feelings that it expresses.
But sorrow, however, turns out not to be a state but a process
. . . and C.S. Lewis is right. Each day is different from the one before, and we can be thankful for that.
We are told there are five stages of grief or loss
Denial Anger Bargaining Depression Acceptance
The experience does not come with a map or directions. We live it day by day with all the confusion, exhaustion and blurred vision that comes with it.
Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape
Yesterday I read C.S. Lewis’s A Grief Observed. Far from being a morose experience I found it to be encouraging.
We all experience grief. Knowing it is a process, not a state, gives it movement. And movement means change is possible.
{{{HUGS}}} to you.