Sad memories

InHisWordEO · Post by **InHisWordEO** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 3:36 pm

Good advice Tommy. I find that my two girls and husband are a HUGE comfort to me when I am missing my Mom the most....we'll always have that huge whole in our hearts ....but God does provide what we need to get us through...His sweet grace!

LisaWoo · Post by **LisaWoo** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 2:19 pm

I lost my dad 19 years ago, when I was 17.

You're never REALLY healed. You just learn to live with it. I can conjure up the pain like it just happened if I allow myself.

I just found Google Earth online, and tried to find his grave on it. He was buried on the other side of the country. You never stop missing them, or remembering, or wondering what could have been. I don't think we're supposed to.

Truly, it doesn't go away. You just find a way to put it away, so you can go on living your life.

It IS a hard one. You've made it this far. You have to take stock in yourself, your resolve, your strength. Just keep telling yourself, I made it _____this amount of time. I can make it another day. Take it day by day, for quite a while. It's a long process to grieve your loved ones. To have lost two in one year has got to be so hard. My heart feels for you. Give yourself time, lots of time. You'll work through it. It doesn't seem like it now, but you will.

Go easy on yourself. Truly, don't try to hurry your recovery. There's no end result to achieve, no point to reach that tells you "aha, now i'm okay".

God bless.