Many people have been affected the last couple of weeks by things they never considered could happen. These excerpts from a Liturgy may help them recognize the self in grief.
“I am torn apart and stapled together.
I feel like a shambling thing,
a patched shell of mismatched pieces.
I am disintegrated, my parts compartmentalized
and no longer functioning as a whole.” *
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ART: LJ Austin "Lilacs" 2018
“Here in my grief, all emotions
can grow so tangled that
the shape and the logic and the order
of daily life become garbled and indecipherable.
I am wounded, vulnerable, angry, exhausted.
I am weak and unyielding.
I make heroic decisions at dawn
and abandon them by noon.
I know that grieving will expose these
wrecked and struggling parts of my heart that
I would rather guard. This makes it hard to
let another walk with me.” *
*Excerpts from “To Welcome Another into My Grief” from Every Moment Holy Volume II
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I’m feeling all of this right now Linda, and it hurts. I know I must do what I can to help my husband in his time of grief, but he doesn’t make it easy … I know the pain will lessen over time. I love you.