Sunday's Sorrow - Honoring Fathers Grieving Loss of Child - Part One

There is a sacredness in tears. 

They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. 

They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. 

They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, 

of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. 

~Washington Irving

Sunday's Sorrow

Honoring Fathers Grieving Loss of Child

Part One

Those who think

there is a

TIME LIMIT

when

GRIEVING

Have

NEVER

Lost a piece

of their

HEART

~~~~~

Grieving people are fighting

the most aching fight of their lives.

Stand with them.

Be with them.

Love them in your willingness to admit

that you don't know the answers.

Your presence contains more love

than any answer ever will…

~Tim Lawrence

~~~~~

"I'm...

Fine"

(Anxious, Scared, Sad; 

Hurting, Drained Hopeless;

Lonely, Dysfunctional, Weary;

Apathetic, Exhausted, Lost, Stressed;)

I wish you would 

Read between the lines.

~~~~~

You are most helpful

when you stand with

me, without

changing it, without

making assumptions.

It is okay to not have 

any answers.

~Megan Devine

www.refugeingrief.com

facebook.com/refugeingrief

~~~~~

Nothing will ever be the same.

Your life has been forever changed.

Grief is uncovering what that

change is and how to deal with it.

~Benjamin Allen

~~~~~

The ground beneath us

that collects us is too

sacred and when I enter

another's life I know to

take off my shoes for I

am on holy ground.

We are on holy ground,

the sacredness of

sorrow's healing ground.

~Benjamin Allen

~~~~~

The answer to the mystery of

existence is the love you shared 

sometimes so imperfectly and

when the loss wakes you to the

deeper beauty of it, to the

sanctity of it, you can't get off

your knees for a long time.

You're driven to your knees not by

the weight of the loss but by

gratitude for what preceded the 

loss. And the ache is always there,

but one day not the emptiness."

~Dean Koontz

~~~~~

It is within my darkest moments where I 

have found myself without words to 

describe the most brilliant presence of

love. In the heights of my joy and the

depths of my sorrow I have come to

believe that there is only love. No matter

where I go, how I feel or what I

question, I have found this presence

waiting, waiting to love me, waiting to love.

~Benjamin Allen

Title Picture:

~FarSideOfTheRainbow

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2nd Picture:

~Grieving Fathers

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3rd Picture:

~Grieving Fathers

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4th Picture:

~GriefDiaries

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5th Picture:

~TheAfterloss.com (Tim Lawrence)

https://www.facebook.com/TheAfterloss/photos/pb.447234425404141.-2207520000.1464042767./855493004578279/?type=3&theater

6th Picture:

~TheAfterloss.com (Benjamin Allen)

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7th Picture:

~TheAfterloss.com (Benjamin Allen)

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8th Picture:

~TheAfterloss.com (Dean Koontz)

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9th Picture

~TheAfterloss.com (Benjamin Allen)

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