Hello, friends.
Most of my writings are meant to be encouraging thoughts around the little, but oftentimes missed, blessings of each day. They are light hearted, and that is intentional. Who wants to read about the downers of life? But there IS that other side of life. The pain-filled side, the devastated-to-my-very-being side. And that very real side of life is what I'd like to share over the next several days.
There is nothing that will tear your heart apart, bring you to a point of raw emotion and pain, like the loss of a loved one. Experts say that there is nothing more painful than the loss of a child. The experts are right. There is no preparation, no provision, and no knowledge, to make you ready for the loss. If there were, the Lord knows, I would have done it.
It's been three years since that God-awful day we got the call. It started out being a fun day. We were having a beach party with some of our closest friends. I was making fresh salsa, for the first time. My husband had taken the dog to the groomer. And when the phone rang, I assumed it was our friends saying they would be a little late. But that was not the case. This call was different. This was the call all parents pray they never have to answer. And this call would be the one that would change our lives forever.
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