Karen says it better than I ever could: Such gratitude for those of us who have found each other through our sadness:
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RESOURCES FOR GRIEVING YOUNG PEOPLE
RESOURCES FOR SURVIVORS OF SUICIDE and PARENTS WHO HAVE LOST CHILDREN
The Desert
I began writing here in order to reflect my way through the first full calendar year after the sudden death in September 2008 of our beloved 24-year-old son. In no way am I able in mere words to plumb the depths of our family's sorrow, but at least here I can wade around a bit in the shallows. Or tread lightly in the expanse of desert that seems not to end. Whatever metaphor works. And, oh ~ I'm not alone. In the list below you'll find others who have written about the big losses of recent years. (Other posts - from the first four months - can be found on my regular blog, Search the Sea, indexed under Grief and Loss.)
THERE ARE OTHERS
Cloud of Topics
Advent
(5)
Algonquin
(2)
Art
(4)
Ashes
(3)
Beauty
(1)
Birds
(3)
Blogging
(9)
Bonhoeffer
(1)
Books
(12)
Care for the Grieving
(7)
Carpe Diem
(1)
Catholic
(2)
Cemeteries
(1)
Chartres
(2)
Chicago
(1)
Choosing Life
(1)
Christianity
(1)
Church
(11)
Church Year
(1)
CPE
(3)
Cremation Liturgy
(2)
Delp
(2)
Desert
(2)
Dreams
(1)
Easter
(3)
Experience
(3)
Faith
(2)
Family
(19)
Family and Friends
(8)
Family. Friends
(1)
Florida
(1)
France
(3)
Friends
(21)
Funerals
(1)
God
(3)
Gratitude
(2)
Grey's Anatomy
(1)
Grief
(4)
Guelph
(4)
Health
(3)
Hebrew
(9)
Holidays
(7)
Holocaust
(2)
Hope
(1)
House
(1)
Humor
(1)
Icons
(1)
Ignatian
(3)
Incongruity
(1)
Jesuit
(5)
Jewish
(2)
Judaism
(1)
Labyrinth
(1)
Landscape
(5)
Lent 2009
(5)
Ministry
(2)
Monastery
(1)
Mothers
(4)
Music
(5)
Novels
(2)
Oregon
(2)
PC(USA)
(2)
Poetry
(4)
Prayer
(6)
Quotes
(3)
Retreat
(5)
Retreats
(2)
Rituals
(4)
Seminary
(27)
Sermons
(1)
Spiritual Direction
(12)
Spirituality
(6)
Suffering
(2)
Suicide
(38)
Surviving Loss
(104)
Television
(2)
The Process
(2)
Tikva
(1)
Wilderness
(1)
Wisdom
(3)
Youtube
(2)
Blog Archive
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2009
(187)
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November
(20)
- Advent Retreat
- Playing By The Numbers
- Holiday Survival
- Thanksgiving Tinged with Sorrow
- Mishbarim: Dismantling Your Life
- Reflections on Suicide and the Holocaust
- Just a Day
- Loons
- Can You Believe . .
- Surviving Loss
- Spending the Day Here
- My Josh
- Seminary Tidbits
- Dirge Without Music
- Roundabout Connections
- Day 1
- Grieving Young People
- Meditation 2: Academic
- Thoughts on Suicide
- Meditation 1
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November
(20)
2 comments:
Through your blog and your words, you have helped me in my journey through this slough of sorrow. Your words I have taken as mine because you express my feelings better than I.
On this Thanksgiving day I am thankful for you. Three years ago we celebrated a wonderful, happy day with Mary. We had one last happy holiday. Odd how life can change in just a few seconds on a phone.
April
I agree with you, and I was thinking about doing the same thing on my blog (linking to Karen's). She wrote perfectly about how I feel. I'm thankful for you, too, GG.
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