Waves...
"Conquering Emotional Pain"
"You were unsure which pain is worse - the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will."
- Simon Van Booy
* If you haven't done so already, WATCH THE VIDEO I LINKED ABOVE. The message is SO powerful.
Today there was a break in the waves.
Up until today, the waves just kept coming... one after another... drowning us in sorrow.
But today we were able to come up for air.
And just like the video so wisely suggest, we rowed. We got busy. We did stuff.
I went to work. I worked out.
We went to Home Depot and bought everything we needed and came home and built a garden around our tree in the backyard.
We let our minds be free. We let our lungs take in the fresh air we had missed from being buried under all of those waves.
But then... another wave. And another. Even bigger than before.
An article online about a school where practically the entire staff is pregnant. A picture of them all lined up, smiling, showing off their bellies.
A young couple, just like us, walking by the house with their two tiny babies in a stroller.
And just like that, the undertow of sadness drags us right back under and the waves keep coming...
But we dont panic anymore when the waves come... we aren't surprised anymore. It hurts just as bad, it stings every bit as much... but we know this is our life know. This IS what our days, weeks, months and years will be full of.
One step forward, two back. Three steps forward, two back. Always moving forward, knowing we will always get pulled back.
Making it to this point - surviving what this past month has brought us - means we can make it. It means we will make it.
And for Graham and Savannah, we have to make it.
"You were unsure which pain is worse - the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will."
- Simon Van Booy
* If you haven't done so already, WATCH THE VIDEO I LINKED ABOVE. The message is SO powerful.
Today there was a break in the waves.
Up until today, the waves just kept coming... one after another... drowning us in sorrow.
But today we were able to come up for air.
And just like the video so wisely suggest, we rowed. We got busy. We did stuff.
I went to work. I worked out.
We went to Home Depot and bought everything we needed and came home and built a garden around our tree in the backyard.
We let our minds be free. We let our lungs take in the fresh air we had missed from being buried under all of those waves.
But then... another wave. And another. Even bigger than before.
An article online about a school where practically the entire staff is pregnant. A picture of them all lined up, smiling, showing off their bellies.
A young couple, just like us, walking by the house with their two tiny babies in a stroller.
And just like that, the undertow of sadness drags us right back under and the waves keep coming...
But we dont panic anymore when the waves come... we aren't surprised anymore. It hurts just as bad, it stings every bit as much... but we know this is our life know. This IS what our days, weeks, months and years will be full of.
One step forward, two back. Three steps forward, two back. Always moving forward, knowing we will always get pulled back.
Making it to this point - surviving what this past month has brought us - means we can make it. It means we will make it.
And for Graham and Savannah, we have to make it.
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