Life After Loss, Grief, or Pain
In my experience of grieving a loss, like losing our father, as much as I miss him deeply, losing him here on earth has been my saving more than my loss. Pain has this way of stirring something within us that either pushes us to be better or be bitter. Sometimes we start by being bitter because the pain is overbearing and then work our way in to choosing better. But it stirs something in us with a knowing that we have to do better. That we have to build on making our lives worth living, pursuing things of meaning that adds value to the rest of our journey here on earth. It brings death closer to home as a reality that we will all come to and need to prepare for - whether in our pursuit of the relationships we keep or the goals and aspirations we have in this life. For us who have witnessed loved ones transiting from life to death, in THAT moment where the gut wrenching pain of loss is unbearable, we realize, that truly nothing else matters. Not who was right or wrong in the argume...