Wednesday's Woe - The Temporariness of Grief's Reprieve… ~Tommy and Angie Prince

Wednesday's Woe

The Temporariness of Grief's Reprieve…

~Tommy and Angie Prince

It has been 6 3/4 years… What is any different in our grief over the loss of our beloved nineteen-year-old daughter?

~Wings of Hope-Living Forward

Not much really. Yes, we can function a little better. And yet, we are forever different.

And we do have breaks away from the heaviness of our grief, but there will never be any such thing as any end to our grief!


We can catch temporary breaks away from our grief, like Angie and I do when we keep our grand-daughter Ellie. But… the next day, you can count on it; the grief will come back with a vengeance. Our tears will start flowing before we even realize the particulars of what our grief is about… 

~Wings of Hope-Living Forward

Early on in our grief, when we found we had at least enough attention-span to watch a movie, we would experience a momentary break away from grief once the movie started, but as soon as the music came on signaling the end of the movie, we both would start weeping. We could not face going back into a reality where our child was not…

~Wings of Hope-Living Forward

The difference between now and then? 

~Out of the Ashes 

The reprieves can be a little longer now…

~grieving mothers ~Sharon Lee Hoover and ~Jill Compton

but still they are just temporary reprieves from our life-long grief ...










Graphic of swing, thanks to ~Angels at My Door