My Window on Widowhood

My journey from grief to contentment

Category: Grief

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Grief / Random Thoughts

A Restorative Walk

Like many people, I find it hard to talk about my inner battles.  It is so much easier to put on a smile and say “I’m fine, thanks” than to be honest.  Maybe it...

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Hope

On my morning ramble with Suki, I found myself contemplating two contrasting pictures.  Although the first would have appeared hopeless at the time, it is now, with hindsight, a picture of hope.  It is...

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Light

The sun woke me up this morning before my alarm went off.  Our dog walk was taken under blue skies. The birds are chirruping away and the crocuses are out.  The sun was warm...

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Grief / Random Thoughts

Judge Not

Do not judge, or you too will be judged.  For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Matthew...

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Bad Days

A friend who is struggling to come to terms with the loss of her husband after 60 years of marriage confessed that she has many “bad” days.  This set me thinking about what we...

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Grief

Reflections

“Weeping may remain for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning” Psalm 30 verse 5 Does grief go away? It really depends on what we mean by that question.  Seven years on after...

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Grief

Wholeness

How many sermons, talks and lectures I have sat through in my lifetime?  How many books have I read and how many discussions have I engaged in? How much of all that information do...

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Grief

Why?

An almost instinctive reaction in times of disaster is to cry out “Why?”  In cases of natural disaster it leads to a plethora of scientific explanations, as after the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004. ...

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Grief

Stuff

Because I am not good about dealing with “stuff”, I have been putting off writing about it.  However, it is something we all face when a loved one dies.  What do we do with...

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Grief

A Time to Laugh

While preparing to write this blog, I read again the beautiful and familiar passage in Ecclesiastes 3, verses 1 to 8: “There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under...