Todays Affirmation: Accept yourself and be grateful that you can grow from where you are. Yesterday was a day of growth. I put to rest a lot of grief that, as of January this year, I wasnt even aware still existed inside of me. Yesterday I honored my three stillborn daughters at the dedication of Garden of the Sleeping Angels. I am so incredibly grateful. I am grateful that two people were moved to make their gardens a sanctuary for those that have experienced the loss of a child through stillbirth, miscarriage, SIDS and disease. I am grateful for the hearts of those who serve those families for they, too, experience grief every time a family loses their child. I am grateful for the opportunity to be human and vulnerable. To be able to reach out to others who have also stood in my shoes, at a loss for the why? and who often hide their grief because no one really understands except those who have suffered the same. And most of us dont talk about it, and so we rarely find each other. The vision and compassion it took to see need and to answer that call seem to me to be extraordinary. To pursue opening space where a mother, a father, a grandparent, a sibling or friend can come, sit, and experience peace takes selflessness - especially when the place has been home for twenty years. It takes seeing beyond the doorstep, moving out and into nature, and knowing that somehow, for those that come, that place will shift sorrow to joy - just in the being there. And it also takes the willingness of those that have lost to be vulnerable, to go to the place in their hearts where sorrow has lain dormant, and to release it to The Divine and the Universe. And that is where the growth begins. So todays is a more specific prayer: For those of you who have experienced the loss of a child or grandchild, I am sorry. I have been there and my heart aches for you. But I pray that you know that there is hope, and there is healing, and there is joy. And if youre willing to make the trek to a peaceful sanctuary to spend some time wandering through the beauty of gardens, with birdsong, breeze and water as your companions, I say, Go. Honor your loss. Honor your strength. Honor your life. Blessings to you and to those you love. Grow. Right now, right where you are.
Posted on: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 11:51:41 +0000
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