Grief: An Ongoing Journey
I just want my joy back! It seems as if it were just yesterday when I spoke those words to my husband. He had just been diagnosed with Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma and I had just lost both of my parents to Alzheimer’s. Grief is an ongoing journey for me. There are good days and then there are horrible days. It is in my darkest of days that I find some comfort in my writing. It is through my writing that I’m finding my joy.
Very recently I was approached with this question “What is reborn and what dies?” He told me to think about it. As I went about the next several days I did think about it. I thought about “What Dies” and I thought about my mother and my father. I thought about my brother. I thought about “What is reborn” and my hope is that my mother, father and brother were.
I also thought about when the day comes for my death, I too would be reborn and we would all be together again. As a Christian I believe there is Spiritual Rebirth and Salvation in everything. I believe this will be the most important of all the gifts that my Lord will give to me.
So it will be during my darkest of days that I will do my best to stay focused on this gift.
Deborah Ann Tornillo
Author, “36 Days Apart”
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