Just For Today For Bereaved Parents
Just for today I will try to live through the next 24 hours and not expect to get over my child's death, but instead learn to live with it, just one day at a time.
Just for today I will remember my child's life, not just her death, and bask in the comfort of all those treasured days and moments we shared.
Just for today I will forgive all the family and friends who didn't help or comfort me the way I needed them to.They truly did not know how.
Just for today I will smile no matter how much I hurt on the inside, for maybe if I smile a little, my heart will soften and I will begin to heal.
Just for today I will reach out to comfort a relative or friend of mychild, for they are hurting too, and perhaps we can help each other.
Just for today I will free myself from my self-inflicted burden of guilt, for deep in my heart I know if there was anything in this world I could of done to save my child from death, I would of done it.
Just for today I will honor my child's memory by doing something with another child because I know that would make my own child proud.
Just for today I will offer my hand in friendship to another bereaved parent for I do know how they feel.
Just for today when my heart feels like breaking, I will stop and remember that grief is the price we pay for loving and the only reason I hurt is becauseI had the privilege of loving so much
Just for today I will not compare myself with others. I am fortunate to be who I am and have had my child for as long as I did.
Just for today I will allow myself to be happy, for I know that I am not deserting him by living on.
Just for today I will accept that I did not die when my child did, my life did go on, and I am the only one who can make that life worthwhile once more.
1 comment:
Happy Birthday, Andi!!!!
What a wonderful poem. I think of your pain often, and pray that God "pass some of the cup" so to speak, to comfort you.
Today, on this National Day of Prayer(what a wonderful day to have a BIRTHDAY,) I was thinking of Nick in heaven. Allowing my mind to indulge in imaginative ways he's spending today. I think of his legs, lengthened and strengthened, in the blink of an eye. It's wild to see him without his cool leg brace. Then a thought...what if we are feeling the opposite of him. Our deepest sorrows, pain, regrets, the "anvil" resting on your chest, Andi? What if we can imagine the complete OPPOSITE of those terrible feelings? As unbearable as the pain sometimes seems to overtake even our most Christ-like senses, imagine, not only NONE OF THAT, but rather 180degrees the opposite. I can say I am overwhelmed at the thought of what Nicky is experiencing. In the very presence of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. No eye has seen, no ear as heard, and I think..."no imagination has imagined..."
I guess that is what it meant by
JOY, UNSPEAKABLE, AND FULL OF GLORY!!! What a wonderful Maker!
May 1, 2008 8:42 AM
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