Very few people know and realize the fight for life you take on after you lose a child or someone great in your life. The trauma and stress that take over and set in are beyond comprehensive. The pain of missing them is excruciating. Their loss leaves a huge hole in not only your soul, but also in your heart. This hole is in the shape of them. No one else can fit the shape and you wouldn’t want anyone else to because they brought to your heart and life what no one else ever could.
And so you take on the nightmare of all the grief layers in its own form and way…hitting and punching you from every angle, knocking you down flat, and even kicking you around while you’re down.
You cry – you scream – you get angry – you bargain – you shut down – and eventually you will either give up or fight for what’s left.
Tragedy, trauma, loss, heartache, and pain sadly happen to all of us at different times in our lives because none of us are exempt. And yes, sad and bad things do change the story of our life. And we can use that story to change us in giving us the strength to fight for what’s left because it’s worth it
We fight for our heart to stay open to love; we fight for our family we are still blessed with because they deserve the best pieces of our heart; and we even fight for the simplicity that most take advantage of…which is smiling, dreaming, and living again.
We fight to try and make the new undesired normal beautiful again, however we can. We take those fragile and shattered pieces we have left, and we work hard in melting God’s beautiful gold in-between those pieces…piecing each piece slowly, in its own time, back together again into a new form of beautiful.
And how long do we fight for what’s left? As long as it takes!!
Never giving up!