Very powerfully written @buckaroobaby. Is this written based upon something through which you are currently having to go? Or something from your past? It is hard to imagine you have not been through dealing with grief yourself, given the impact of what you have written here.
While empathetic in reading these words, I cannot say I have ever been through grief like this. My beloved daughter and, to a lesser extent, my beloved wife have, as I listen to their expressions of pain. I will not put on our Hive blockchain a lot of detail, but suffice it to say their grief was due to the loss of a child.
"What they don't tell you is that you can only go through it, by going through it."
How much of life (all of it really?) is beyond our control. We might wish to believe otherwise at times, but ... Do we not find what we actually control is not what happens, but how we choose to respond to it?
I hope all is well with you and your loved ones. Thank you for writing this, as there can be no question it comes from the heart! ❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️
Thank you for your kind words and interest @roleerob. Yes it is written from the heart scarred through much grief but stronger for it, HalleluYah. My first husband died of cancer after a long fight. That was 12 years ago. In the more recent years I have walked through this valley of the shadow of death with three close friends who have lost spouses to cancer. It is a cruel disease that steals and destroys long before the body of the loved one is in the grave. A few weeks ago we said goodbye to a friend after her short fight with cancer. Some of these words are those I wrote for her husband and four children. As much as others can sympathise or empathise unless you have buried someone very close to you, you can't understand the depth of the anguish and utter feeling of desolation and despair. It is a terrible but necessary place to be in healing. I love the picture and purpose of Kentsugi. Do you know it? The ancient Japanese practice of mending broken pottery WITH GOLD! It is a beautiful analogy.
Okay @buckaroobaby, that certainly explains it. You have undoubtedly been a blessing to those close to you, as you have written here. Based upon ...
... a hard truth. In so many areas of experience in life, unless we have lived it ourselves, we cannot fully be of help to others, when their time comes to go through their version of the same experience, as ordained by our Creator and Sovereign God.
No. I do not recall ever hearing of it. At your recommendation, I will check into it! 🙂
Until "next time," God bless and keep you and your loved ones!
And may He bless and keep you and yours!