After a loved one crosses over it can feel as though you’re left with a gaping hole in your heart, you may feel lost and alone, angry and sad… while experiencing many other waves of emotions as you go through the mourning process and coming to terms with your loss. You feel as if they are gone from your life forever, but the truth is, they are always with us. […]
by Stella Georgalli Parker They all say you’re with me… they say you haven’t left me, you have merely taken on another form. But I don’t see you; I don’t smell you, I don’t hear you, I don’t feel you. Look for the signs, they say. What signs? What do I look for? Where do I look? How do I know it will be from you? Your absence is so […]
by Elise Kowalski Do you believe any of the following painful thoughts? ==> He shouldn’t have died when he did. ==> Her life was cut short. ==> God took him too soon. ==> I prayed (and everyone around me did as well) for healing and it didn’t work. ==> She shouldn’t have suffered the way he did. ==> He had so much life yet to live. What if you could […]
This post is adapted from my book Finding Davey: A Father’s Search for His Son in the Afterlife. It was freezing outside—around 20 degrees Fahrenheit during our pre-dawn hike. John, Spencer, and I had climbed up the Maryland Heights trail with headlamps on and reached the overlook to Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia. We took some photos and stood watching the light of the sun slowly paint the town below us. […]
by Tiffany Thiel I’d like to start by saying that this is by no means a complete list of stones available to help with healing, and grief, but they are stones I’ve personally worked with in my own journey of grief. Just as each of our journeys differ on this trek, so do our needs. Some may work for you, some may not, and only you can decide. The most […]
by Henry Scott Holland Death is nothing at all.I have only slipped away to the next room.I am I and you are you.Whatever we were to each other, That, we still are. Call me by my old familiar name.Speak to me in the easy waywhich you always used.Put no difference into your tone.Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughedat the little jokes we enjoyed together.Play, […]
by Fara Gibson I have written many articles with the intention of healing those whom read them. This article has that very intention as well. If anything written within this article challenges your Faith or Beliefs, please know that is never my intention. I am absolutely respectful of the Faith and Beliefs of others. I believe that our lives here on Earth are Prewritten by us with intentions for our […]
by Carla Sanders What’s on your mind today, always on top when I open Facebook…So today I will share What Is On My Mind: FAITH Today June 18, 2018 marks 10 months that the most horrific thing in ones life could happen, happened to us & our life was changed forever. It has been hard to get up everyday & do the things we have to do. I can not […]
Was that dragonfly that you saw in the garden yesterday a sign from your loved one in Spirit, or was it just a dragonfly? How can you know? What about the amazing double rainbow, or the cardinal that perched just outside your window? What if you don’t ever feel like you’re receiving signs at all, or you’re afraid that when you do find that white feather, it’s just a coincidence? […]
by Lexi Behrndt Sometimes, life is about perspective, about the lens with which we view our stories and our circumstances. In the world of parents who have outlived their children, we have to learn quickly about perspective. In order to truly keep living after the breath has left our children’s lungs, we are forced to choose the lens with which we’ll see their life, their story, and our lives and […]
