A Journey Through Grief

My sweet babygirl,

There is a small booklet that Debbie sent me in the mail last year, shortly after we met & travelled to NC for Reegan's celebration called "A Journey Through Grief"~ Life Beyond the Broken Heart by Julie Yarbrough...

I guess you can say it's religion based. I read it despite being mad at God at the time. I read it in small excerpts at a time, trying to understand the words & letting them sink in. After all the books that I had read, this one seemed to summerize it best...& felt closer to the grief journey that I was (still) on. I kept in my purse, pulling it out & re-reading as needed, to remind me. I now keep it on my work desk  at home & read it again when I need to. I always said I'd copy some of it here, to remind me of it's words, to remind me of hope & to not lose faith.

Her words come from from first hand experience after losing her husband. I'll be quoting some of my favorite lines during the next couple of weeks, starting from the beginning of the book.

I love & miss you everyday.

Love,
Mommy

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What is grief?

~"If you did not love, you would not suffer; grief and suffering are inextricably linked."

~"Through suffering you understand better the things that really matter: the meaning of faith, hope and love."

~"In suffering you find your deepest experience with God."

~"Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. It is, in fact, the one thing that still stands when all else has fallen." -Apostle Paul

~"Death has separated you only in body but not in heart."