Thursday, May 23, 2013
For my Friend
So tonight my post is not about me... not about MY loss... but another's. I am a widow... and now... she is too. While my heart is in pain, and the hole is there... I have started to heal. My scar has begun to strengthen, hers... to form. It is amazing to me how loss can be so different, yet so similar. I had a very short time with my love... her, a lifetime. Me... a small child. Her...a grown child, a grandchild...SO many memories. The comfort of a presence, a soulmate that has been so close to your heart, that like your wedding ring... you no longer notice that it is there... only that it is gone. We are different, yet the same. We are two sides of the same coin. For me... so sudden...no chance to say Good-Bye, yet there was no suffering. For her... the pain of watching the one you love so dearly struggle and fight for one more day... not wanting to say Good-Bye, but knowing it is near. I ask tonight that you pray for her and her family. I will tell you my friend, that God has a new angel, and you, a new Guardian. Please know that soon you will find your "new normal." Reach out to those around you, feel his strength within... you will survive. Much love to you and yours.
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How true, your love was gone in an instant mine knew for months it was coming and his days were numbered. We just did not know how few he had, God answered my prayers by being merciful on him.
ReplyDeleteHe was full of life and never wanted his hands idle.
His last words to me were "it's not possible" We would always say I love you more back and forth, he said to me many times "it's not possible to love me more than I love you".
I know I will see him again and he will meet there at heaven's gate. But until then I have an empty hole but I rejoice knowing he is no longer suffering.
Prayers for you my sweet friend.
Like I've said before...its just two sides of the same coin. I've learned so much in the last year... about myself, about grief, about life. I followed his last few months through you and could only smile... at the love. Your comment made me cry though... because Justin and I used to go back and forth about the "I love you mores" as well... He used to always answer with "way beyond the heavens and back." Funny how there seems to be a little foreshadowing in that one. You have lots of love surrounding you and I'm sure he'll be waiting for you on a nice pearly white bench.... "for a warm wet kiss." Prayers.
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