I was given a wonderful book by a friend called “The Right Words – when you need them the most” – Donna Ashworth
This is one of the pages from this book. I hope it speaks to you.
If you think grief has a time limit
You have likely never lost, a piece of your heart.
Everything looks different and will never look the same again. And that never lessens, we only become accustomed, to handling it, to hiding it.
If you think grief has a time limit, you have never lost a piece of your heart and for that, you should be truly grateful.
If you think that the days, months and years will somehow erase the extent of the loss, then you have never been unlucky enough to lose a love. You are blessed, my friend.
For life without that piece of you, is a new life indeed. Is it a new world when the person you miss is no longer here.
Every day is a mountain to climb, battling the waves of emotion, when a song plays, a smell reminds or a memory rears.
You may think time is healing the hurt, then you enter a new phase of your life; a relationship, a child, a grandchild, a new opportunity and you realise you cannot share it with your missing part.
The waves bear down fresh as they were on the very first day.
Let the grieving grieve for a long as they must and if you want to help, love them more.
Love is the only way.
