When is the Right Time to Send a Book to a Grieving Friend?
Shortly after Daniel died, a co-worker of my husband's gave us a book. The book was accounts of local parents who had lost children in various ways.
Shortly after Daniel died, a co-worker of my husband's gave us a book. The book was accounts of local parents who had lost children in various ways.
I wrote this a few years ago - it mentions the Oklahoma City Bombing which will have its 18th anniversary tomorrow - and after what has happened in Boston I thought it might be appropriate to share now:
We haven't even come close to understanding the "whys" of the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy, and now we are confronted with the horrific happenings of the bombings at the Boston Marathon yesterday...this time taking another child's life - an 8-year-old boy - an innocent bystander who was cheering on the runners as they neared the finish line of the marathon.
I want to start by sharing a story that I hope you will find inspiring. It will help you to understand how the body holds on to grief. And, how to let it go. It's about me ;)
2004/05 were extremely hard years for me after having lost my boyfriend to cancer and my mother to suicide.
It Takes a Decade
Twenty years! I can't believe that this coming May 2013 will mark the 20th anniversary of the deaths of my 37-year-old wife Cindy and my two-year-old adopted daughter Katie. Twenty years! That's seven years longer than the 13 years Cindy and I were married.