Everytime I read the above quote I do my best to grit my teeth and try to understand it. I often think authors find it easy to write such things,.....for those who must live it....this is so very hard. Perhaps THAT is the journey of the soul? -Marsha
Dec 29, 2011
The Holiday Season brings with it a mixture of joy/hope (reason for the season)...and the pain of losing a child. The Norman Rockwell painting depicting 'Americana" can fee unattainable to us, perhaps forever. But in the spirit of our child's life we determine how to share/experience this new version of the holidays...without them This version takes effort; perhaps effort that would make them proud.
October 22,2011
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who search for light in the face of loss. -Marsha
October 21, 2011
You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. -Epicurus
October 13, 20011
The answer is simple, once you realize what ego is and how it works. When what you've identified with, that gave you a sense of joy and completeness collapses or is taken away, it can lead to a collapse of the ego, your identification with your own being. When death approaches or a loved one dies your sense of beingness, of who I am, is freed from its entanglement with physical form. Spirit is released and you realize your essential identity is formless, it is not physical. You recognize the presence of your soul as well as the soul of the loved one you lost. That's the peace of God. The ultimate truth of who you are is not what I do, what I've got, how I fit into this situation, but rather...... I Am.
-by Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth)
About A New Journey
Previous Thoughts For The Day
Today's thought speaks about honesty.....
Susan's daughter developed Rhett syndrome at a very young age and needed constant care. Susan and her husband spent years trying to find help/cure to no avail. Her daughter passed away several years later. Susan searched for meaning, traveled great distances to experience nature and adventure...looking for understanding.
"The things God was teaching me were the opposite of what I had always believed. I had always thought that if I prayed hard and long enough, and with enough people joining me in prayer, God had to see things my way. I believed God didn't want me to experience pain. As I studied the life of Naomi, I understood a deep truth - Naomi was bitter after her sons died, and she was able to admit her honest feelings. She didn't try to cover them up by saying what people wanted to hear. Slowly, I began to learn that God wants to reveal Himself to me in my pain. I began to understand that God has to be enough - that He will help me through pain, and that He won't always deliver me from pain. I am still learning that it's in the pain that I can learn what faith really is."
-from A New Kind Of Normal.... by Carol Kent
The world touts intellectual achievement as being the ultimate, doesn't it? How much schooling have you had? What is your education? How well do you speak? How much have you read? All that is fine, but its not nearly as important as the emotional side.
People who live by their emotionality are fulfilling their destiny more so than the so-called intellectuals. This is not to downgrade intellectual pursuit, but both sides must rise. When our soul is on the other side of the veil we already have the intellectual knowledge, so travelling to the earth plane is for stretching emotionally. We we are born into this earthly plane we are quickly told, "Don't cry. Don't let your inner child come out."
Don't let intellectual pursuits deprive you of the journey of your soul.
-Sylvia Browne (Soul's Perfection)
Mark Twain (author/Tom Sawyer)discusses the death of his daughter...
Eric Clapton (musician) discusses the death of his son...
Barbara Eden (actress) interviewed about the death of her son...
Mother interviewed (video) about how she is handling the death of her son...
Many Many Articles about surviving the death of a child....(right sidebar)
B for that one person or small group of family or friends who allow you to share your journey with them. There is a person in my life who was able to listen to my wailing cries and handle/share the pain in my soul as well as understand my need to unwrap 'religion in a box'. This is the person who helped save me when I didn't think it was possible. -Marsha
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