Tag: death
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9 Ways to Care for the Grieving Parent
Child loss is an incredibly difficult burden, not only on the family but also on friends and family in any sort of proximity. The fear of doing or saying the wrong thing can paralyze you. You don’t want to do something to make the pain worse. How do you actually run toward the suffering?
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Driving by the Dying
I sit perched in the windowsill of the hospital room watching the cars on the highway. My daughter and all of the machines that now uphold her life lay feet away from me. How many times did I drive by this place of healing and death not knowing it would hold the final moments of…
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The Scar of Suffering Love
Where is the salt that I may rub it into my wound and be scarred for life with remembrance of her.
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Psalm 88 Rewritten
You have swallowed me, Crushed me in darkness. There is no escape. Your silence confounds me; I cannot catch my breath before I’m pulled under again. Where is your outstretched hand?
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A Good Day for the Grieving Mother
Today was a “good” day. I seemed to hit my cues a little better in this dance routine I’ve been practicing between grief and joy.
A Mother's Lament 