I was introduced to grief at a young age. Well, I thought I was sage and wise at the ripe old age of 20. I couldn’t have been more wrong. I experienced a loss that I never saw coming. And I sure never knew how it would affect me. And I was surprised by how many people were uncomfortable talking about loss, grief and those unpleasant hard parts of life.
Strangely enough, for all the differences we have, we have so much in common. Grief is one of those ties that bind. We all have joys and triumphs—days and seasons in life when there’s so much wind in our sails, we could scour all four oceans in a day! And we all have the trials—those times when there aren’t enough smiles to coax our own lips into one.
And because we all experience both the ups and the downs, I wondered why it was so difficult for some people to talk about the downs. Maybe it’s because we believe that not talking about them means they have less power over us. Maybe sweeping them under the rug makes them disappear. Or so we think sometimes, as we pour over our sorrows, wondering what will make them better, what will take away their power.
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