PrintJOURNAL 69
25 January, 2016
Hello Sweetheart,
In a recent letter to you I made a reference to “the deep well of grief”. While I’m trying not to analyse my emotions too much, I don’t want to miss any insights that might maximise my ministry to others. My greater need is to experience my emotional responses and to enter into the healing that comes with the acknowledgement of their reality.
Karen came across this reflective observation which she sent to me yesterday.
I had my own notion of grief
I thought it was a sad time
That followed the death of someone you loved
And you had to push through it
To get to the other side.
But I’m learning that there is no other side
There is no pushing through
But rather there is absorption
Adjustment
Acceptance
And grief is not something you can complete
But rather you endure
Grief is not a task that you can finish
And move on
But an element of yourself
An alteration of your being
A new way of seeing
A new dimension of self
“….Absorption, Adjustment, Acceptance….” Three words that convey a world of understanding.
I assume I speak truly when I say that grief releases dimensions of who we are that we never knew existed. That certainly has been the case with us. Although grief is no longer part of your experience now (I assume??), you experienced grief as the disease took over your body and we both grieved that loss. Yet there emerged from within you qualities that inspired so many of us.
But Until Then
You Remain the Love of my Life
Mike
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