BLESSED
When do you reach the point in your grieving that you feel blessed by the experience?
When do you transcend sorrow to feel gratitude? Gratitude for having loved and shared experiences that formed fond memories. Gratitude for feeling emotions, good & bad, along the way. Gratitude for your life being altered when your loved one entered it, and again forever changed when he left.
When does pain transform to serenity? When do you feel acceptance; a calm following the tumultuous torrent of emotions? When does an inner stillness arrive; a knowing that you have arrived at a place of feeling blessed?
Blessed, in part, for having survived the storm of losing your loved one and the ensuing darkness of grief. Passing through looming shadows that cloaked your joy and hope.
Finding peace at this place in your grief journey and with whom you’ve become along the way…wrapped in serenity. The same serenity felt when watching the sun slip below the horizon as the day comes to a close, and feeling blessed by its gift.
Blessed by an altered perspective that only comes as a result of loss. As a leaf buds in the spring to flower to full growth, then changes color in autumn to finally fall away in winter, so is your life…a changing landscape. You are blessed by the cycles and contrast each stage offers—lessons to be gathered as bouquets of flowers. Pick them gently and reflect upon their beauty.
So, in grieving, you pass through cycles and rhythms and arrive at some point at peace…at acceptance…at gratitude…at feeling blessed for having loved. Embrace that peacefulness and feel the serenity of acceptance.
Your love hasn’t died—it has only transformed. Blessings await you each time you choose to honor your love and your loved one. Feel blessed to watch another sunrise as it offers the promise of a new day of hope and a new bend in your journey.
Blessed, indeed…
Sharon Clark
