Responding to Loss
Day 132
In Genesis 23, the Bible relates the story of the death and
burial of Sarah, Abraham’s wife. The chapter begins, “Sarah lived to be a
hundred and twenty-seven years old. She died at Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron ) in the land
of Canaan
Abraham’s immediate response was to mourn and weep for his
wife. He made a clear choice to mourn. How have you done this?
Rev. Noel Castellanos says that in healthy grieving “there
are more than just a few tears. There is a real sense of honesty about the
pain. To deal with grief in a healthy way, there has to be a time of just
expressing your deep hurt.”
Holy God, I choose to mourn and to express my grief freely,
knowing that this is the only path to healing. Amen.
~I feel like I have cried me a river. I still well up with tears, well, like now writing this. I miss my mom and sister every single day. I just choose to make the best of the day and to enjoy my son, even on those days when I threaten to send him away. I get overwhelmed and I am human. I have been superwoman for a good while now, and there will be times that I break, but I think all in all, I have done quite well in my despair and grief. I know that this is a process and I will have set backs, but I imagine the set backs to just be pull backs getting ready to catapult me forward like a slingshot. It sounds good anyway.
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