It Will Get Better…

In the days following death, I walked and walked, and I still continue to walk out the energy of grief. On one walk in the early days, my neighbor, a widow of 10 years, just looked at me and said… it will get better. My blank, numb being just looked into her eyes… it will get better.

Those words from one who survived… those words say everything.

It will get better…

• despair will swallow you up, but will then retreat slowly
• pain will stick to your bones, but eventually loosen and fall away
• love no longer is felt, but then hugs you again little by little
• loss is all consuming with no life seen ahead, but the sun rises every morning and brings new life as it tracks across our lives
• smiles return, surprising our shattered selves
• excitement returns with big and little adventures
• life will fill our being again, eventually

Thank you my dear Lisa, for the gut-wrenching wisdom passed on to me that day…

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