Saturday's Sayings - What is Grief? - Part Seven ~written by grieving mother, Debra Carter and many grieving mothers...

Saturday's Sayings

What is Grief?

Part Seven

~written by grieving mother, 

Debra Carter 

and many grieving mothers...

~by artist Paulette Insall via ~Grieving Mother, Jill Compton

• Grief is wanting to bear witness to and comfort the pain and suffering they experienced.

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"My Child Is Gone!"

How will I survive when my only child is gone?
I will have no future to rely on; Why was this done?

I will never make a graduation of any success for you!
No wedding, no parties, No grandchildren; What am I to do?

I think of all what should have been deserving for you today.It's hard to be happy for someone else when I'm feeling this way.

I feel my whole life's legacy has been torn away from me;
Living life hopelessly; How can this be?

I scream to the Heavens, "I'm so hurt, Why did this happen?"
"Will I ever feel the same? My heart is so broken!"

I will live for your honor and celebrate you in every way
But I will be grieving for you forever; each an

~Death of a Loved One 

• Grief is sometimes a vow to fulfill wishes of the dead.

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~Grieving Mothers

• Grief is believing every pebble is a gem. 

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~Jesus Christ Savior by BeliefNet

But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. ~Romans 5:8

• Grief is saying you are forgiven or forgive me.

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~Ce Thibodeau 

• Grief is turning ordinary objects- a hairbrush, a note, a pin- into Sacred vestiges.

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In your light I learn how to love,
In your beauty, how to make poems.
You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you,
but sometimes I do,
and that sight becomes this art.

~Rumi

~Ce Thibodeau 

• Grief is saying thank you. 

~Jill Compton Rest in Peace Gus

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~Grieving Mother, ~Ce Thibodeau
Grieving Mother, Joanne Dennis Mason Altizer, via ~Peggy's Photos 

Saturday's Sayings - What is Grief? Part Five ~written by grieving mother, Debra Carter and many grieving mothers...

Saturday's Sayings

What is Grief?

Part Five

~written by grieving mother, 

Debra Carter 

and many grieving mothers...

~Angel Mommy Creations

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I never knew I could slip through grieving so badly. 

The daily struggle, the heartbreak which I have. 

My strength is slowly dying inside; the pain truly exists. 

Really I couldn't feel anything else, but only this. 

Grief is such a mysterious emotional drainage: 

Living in limbo, trying to live with such courage. 

This is actually hard; be easy with me. 

I didn't ask for this; it's not an act, you see. 

Attacking me verbally doesn't make me rush through it; 

It only prolongs the grief and ruins our relationship. 

So don't be surprised if I don't come to your door; 

You have hurt me deeply with words you thought were the cure.

~Lu

~Death of a Loved One

• Grief is physical.

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~Grieving Mother, Denise M. King

• Grief is feeling rundown and getting sick over and over again.

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~Faith, Hope, Love

• Grief is holding your breath, or breathing fast and shallow like a scared rabbit.

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~Vintage pics via Tumblr

• Grief is forgetting and then remembering again that someone is really dead.

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~Vintage pics via Tumblr

• Grief is a dim spotlight that illuminates the void where a life once was.

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~Death of a Loved One 

• Grief is throwing your hands up into the air and collapsing onto the floor into despair.

Saturday's Sayings - What is Grief? - Part Three ~grieving mother, Debra Carter and many grieving mothers... / Worldwide Candle Lighting

Saturday's Sayings

What is Grief?

Part Three

~Grieving Mother, 

Debra Carter 

and many grieving mothers...

What is Grief?

~vintage from tumblr

• Grief is feeling so lousy all the time that you cannot tell whether you are sick or depressed.

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~vintage from tumblr

• Grief is exhaustion that cannot sleep, hunger that cannot eat, and tears that will not dry.

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~vintage via tumblr

• Grief is a field of fog and distance where we wander lost and aimless.

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~In Memory of Lost Loved Ones

• Grief is feeling their presence, seeing their face, hearing their voice-even though they are dead-or being frustrated because we cannot.

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~vintage via tumblr

• Grief is a plea to undo what cannot be undone. 

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~via Grieving Mother, Jill Compton

• Grief is retracing the steps that led our loved one from this world.

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~vintage via tumblr

• Grief is unexpected composure, lucidness, and productivity.

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~In Memory of Lost Loved Ones

• Grief is being able to distinguish better what is really important and meaningful after all is said and done and choosing to do more of it.

~Thank you to Grieving Mother, Debra Carter who says, "Angie, I wrote this from many (others' feelings) along with mine. The authors are many grieving Mom's."

Saturday's Sayings - What is Grief? - Part Two ~written by Grieving Mother, Debra Carter and many grieving mothers...

Saturday's Sayings

What is Grief?

Part Two

~written by grieving mother, 

Debra Carter 

and many grieving mothers...

~The Compassionate Friends

• Grief is yelling at the beautiful sunrise because it means time is abandoning your loved one.

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~via Grieving Mother, Jill Compton

• Grief is damage control.

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~Grieving Mother, Jill Compton via ~Journey of the Survivor

• Grief is a tribute to the depth of your love.

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~Grieving Mother, Leslie Martin Nelson via ~The Bible Page in Unity John 17

• Grief is a hope turned backwards in time.

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~The Compassionate Friends

When a child dies, we find that our minds are cloudy, they don't seem to work very well, and approaches we conceive to help us survive our loss often don't pan out as we anticipated. These words by Carol Staudacher seem to focus on what we truly must do make our way through the landmine called "grief."

• Grief is sitting in bed crying in the middle of the night saying God I miss you. Please, if you are there, give me a sign and hearing a bird sing a happy tune in the darkness and knowing that song was your answer.

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~The Compassionate Friends

• Grief is an inventory of what has been lost.

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~Grieving Mother, Faye Marie Miller

• Grief is panning through memories over and over searching for jewels.

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~Grieving Mother, Faye Marie Miller

• Grief is lazy and lethargic.

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~Grieving Mother, Faye Marie Miller

• Grief is exhaustion that cannot sleep, hunger that cannot eat, and tears that will not dry.

~ via Debra Carter who says, "Angie, I wrote this from many (others' feelings) along with mine. The authors are many grieving Mom's."

Saturday's Sayings - What is Grief? - Part One ~written by Debra Carter and many grieving mothers...

Saturday's Sayings

What is Grief?

Part One

~written by grieving mother, 

Debra Carter 

and many grieving mothers...

What is Grief!

~via grieving mother, Darlene Thomas

• Grief is more than just a constellation of feelings in response to a loss.

~via grieving mother, Jill Compton

• Grief does not fade with the passage of time. We do not realize our losses in an instant; we realize them over years. We do not get over it, but instead go through it, not just once, but many times.

~via grieving mother, Faye Marie Miller. taken at Hummingbird Haven

• Grief changes form and eludes definition. 

~The Compassionate Friends/USA

• Grief sits on your chest, punches you in the gut, squeezes your throat, winds everything up breaking-point tight, and sucks the energy out of you.

~forevermaybe/tumblr

• Grief is rejected offerings and ungranted prayers.

~via Grieving Mothers

• Grief is feeling guilty because we did not stop death, could not revert death, and cannot change death.

~In Memory of Lost Loved Ones

• Grief is unabashedly wailing and drowning in your own snot and tears.

~In Memory of Lost Loved Ones

• Grief is the yearning, the reaching, and the unrequited love that hides behind our losses.

~In Memory of Lost Loved Ones

• Grief is celebration.
  
  
  
  

~ via Debra Carter who says, "Angie, I wrote this from many (others' feelings) along with mine. The authors are many grieving Mom's."