Wednesday, May 27, 2009

UNFAMILIAR TERRITORY

I thought I could make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process. It needs not a map but a history. Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.

-- C. S. Lewis in A Grief Observed


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  1. Rev. Dave WilkinsonMay 29, 2009 at 8:19 AM

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    This is TOTALLY where my dad and I are right now. My mom has been in the hospital for 6 weeks now (multiple complications after a double bypass), and while I am willing to accept that she might never recover from this, dad is still playing the eternal optimist and saying she WILL come home and be fine. The path we are each taking is different, yet the twists and turns EVERY day brings are never ending. Each day has no other like it!

    Various people are approaching dad to work through the grief stages with him; he's resistant so far. I do hope and pray he's the one who is right and I am proven wrong however. It's amazing how far the power of prayer is extending though- she has Jewish, Catholics, Methodists and others all praying for her (and us by extension). Time and God will tell.

    Thanks again for this timely Soundbites!

    -- C.C. in Ohio

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