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Look for me inside your memories

Where I left you with my love

Look for me within your heart

What can you say about your mother

as she is like no other

Her love heals and her hugs dry eyes 

now we look up to you in the skies

they are blue and full of surprise

just as I see you so loving

so true, now free from pain

you taught us all to remain

as well as others to contain

that called you mom 

It had been about a year since her dad’s death. My friend, Lizzy was eleven when we had a conversation about what healing looks like. 

Gratitude.

Such a simple idea… slowing down, taking stock of our lives, making the choice to focus on the good we have, and spending less time searching and yearning for what we don’t.

I am so happy to say

I love you everyday

no matter what we have

mo matter what we do

i know we stick together like glue

i got your back, as you have mine

im so grateful for all the time

we have together

To understand it is precious and not promised

forever

To understand its now or never

for all I have and for all you do

Today I will stand tail and remember all our good times

we have shared...Your life was my life and my life was your life as we were one...

I was your mini me, your daughter, your best friend

i will honor you until the end

Time goes by so fast

making my memories hard to last

I miss you dad, I really do

I have to push every day to get through

From the author: This is an article that you can share with those around you to help them know what’s going on in the grieving heart. We need each other – desperately.

The Grief Toolbox has been very helpful to me in my time of pain and sorrow and I hope to contribute and comfort others as well. I decided to go back to a time when my scar was a deep fresh wound.  I journaled this just two months after the sudden loss of my precious six-year-old grandson, Dylan Skye.