I've taken each kind word, each show of love, each heartfelt thought expressed, and woven them into a warm, comforting and protective shawl to wrap around myself as I've faced the past few days.
I have so much to be grateful for and this space and the incredible people who have found me here and now share my journey are high on my list of treasures. Thank you. Thank you for taking me to your hearts and holding me there. I never imagined that it was possible to feel such kinship, to experience such sincere connection, to find such solace, in a virtual dimension.
This is not a brand new loss and I believe that I will heal. I am healing. I'm just taken by surprise when it's shown to be so fragile still. When a misplaced revelation cuts through the tender scar tissue to my deepest core, and leaves me gasping and in pieces. Again.
But, as many who've reached out have reminded me, time will do its duty and start to heal these wounds again. Time, and the compassion and kindness of loved ones, are on my side. You are at my side. I feel you there.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo F. Buscaglia
(1924-1998)
Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
Felix Frankfurter
(1882-1965)
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7 comments:
A Shawl - What a lovely way to look at it. I agree with Leo's sentiments. As I look back, it is often those simple comments, smiles, squeezes of the hand, unexpected hugs, that have been so life giving.
In turn we are so powerful. We can speak life and hope into others! - Make their shawls more colourful and comfortable.
yes. I am here.
Lovely shawl.
I wish that the sunshine will find its way to your place soon!
Love, I.
its not hard to love the person you are.
it is a kindness repaid.
my thoughts are yours. i really do care for you.
Wear the shawl often. I am glad that I can also be a tiny 'fraiing' on your shawl, helping to keep you warm when cold winds blow ...
I am back at this post because I have been concerned about you all weekend. You have been in my thoughts so often. It is as if brokenness in love is all around me. I have so many questions and I sense the same questions in those around me. My husband and I had a long talk about it tonight. I care for your heart. I am praying for a patched heart post when the time is right. I wait in expectation...
Denise - so true, like passing a torch or a baton... :)
Lisa - I'm so grateful for it my friend. Thank you!
Ida - thanks, me too.
Anairam - it's the finishing detail that makes a thing special and beautiful - thank you for being the fraiing on my shawl!
Claire - you are lovely, thank you! I do believe my heart will eventually heal. It's already come a long way. It's a deep wound though and they don't mend easily, do they. Allowing it the time it needs is hard - it seems to have a timetable of its own. My head is way ahead.
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