I read a quote somewhere, Grieving never ends...it just changes. Its a passage, not a place meant for us to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor is it a lack of faith..it is the price of love. When I read it...I read it again, and again, and again...until I memorized it, those words could not be any truer in my own life. Another one of my dads birthdays has came, and went, this would be my dads 4th birthday without him. Since his departure (as he would call it), Ive learned that the hardest, most challenging thing Ive had to face was not losing my dad, but it was facing the fact of having to learn to live without him. I have also accepted the reality of continuing to search for moments full of him. Sometimes you just never know the value of a moment, until that moment has become a memory. Life teaches us many lessons, but nothing teaches us the values of those lessons until death has made its presence. I think of my dad every single day, and I sorely miss him. But Ive also learned that its just not having him around that I miss, its the inability of creating more, continued memories with him that Im missing most of all!!! I recently remembered a remark my dad once said to me, as we sat down to what would be our last breakfast together at a Dennys before his departure... He said, Dont worry son, (as he put his arm around my shoulder), I will always be there to meet you down memory lane, my dad had a way with words...And you know what? To this day, he has not let me down. Love you always, me
Posted on: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 20:57:12 +0000