This is the story of a widow who has survived the first years of grieving. It's a journey that can only be understood through first hand experience. Once you belong to this Widows-World you are a lifetime member, forever changed...
If I can help anyone by sharing my experience and what I’ve learned, perhaps it will bring purpose to my pain. And possibly by reading these pages you will learn how to support a grieving friend.
Friday, May 30, 2008
There Have Been Angels In My Life...
While they haven't arrived with a blast of trumpets or a rustle of wings, I've known them just the same. They performed their acts in human guise, sometimes borrowing the faces of family and friends, sometimes posing as well-meaning strangers.
You have known them, too, when just the right word was needed, when a tiny act of kindness made a great difference...or perhaps you heard a voice whispering in the night of sorrow, the words not quite clear, but the meaning unmistakable... "There is hope...There is hope".
My husband and I were married 31 years before he died in July 2007. Together we raised three fabulous sons. After spending more than half of my life married and focused on others, I am learning to live as a single person in this new "widow's world."
Blogging, grieving widow, keep those blogs a blogging...type those bloggery bloggings each day!!! Move em in...move em up...move em out! Blog Grieving Widow, blog, b-l-o-g...YEE HA!!!
Forgiveness is freeing up and putting to better use the energy once consumed by holding grudges, harboring resentments, and nursing unhealed wounds. Sidney and Suzanne Simon
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. Kahlil Gibran
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. Lewis B. Smedes
The way people treat you is a reflection of the way you treat people. Remez Sasson
To err is human, to forgive, divine. Alexander Pope
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Mahatma Gandhi
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. Albert Einstein
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