Feeling stuck

1. Feeling stuck is a sign that it's time to make a change.
2. Even the tiniest possible step is progress.
3. You don't have to have it all figured out to move forward.
4. Nothing changes if nothing changes.
5. New beginings can feel like endings.
6. Beautiful things happen when you clear your life of all the negativity.
7. Believe what your heart tells you, not what others say.
8. Stop overthinking. Whatever happens, happens.
9. If it's meant to be, it will happen at the right time, at the right place, for the right reasons,.
10. Your best is yet to come.
(Author unknown)

God is in control.

Wonderful words

A neighbor recently sent me a card with a German quote.

She added the English translation: "Every encounter, that touches our soul, leaves behind a trail that never totally drifts away."

I know she was referring to the time she had spent with T.

I know many others felt the same way.

Alone again, unnaturally

Stopped by two New Years Eve get together's last night.
Each was really nice.
There were friends and acquaintances at both.
Everyone was there with their spouse, except for me.
I had a good time but left each party early.
I didn't leave because I was alone.
I left because it just, once again, hit home that I really missed having T by my side.
I know I'll be fine.
The New Year just tends to make us all even more contemplative than usual.

I know that.

The Funk

Tom and Ellie have been home, for Christmas break, from their colleges.

Emotions have been stirred, for sure.

When we were off, on our own, it seemed like we were doing "alright."

Being together, back home, has re-heightened our awareness of the missing link, T, and has put us all in sort of a funk.

I know we will each work our way out of it.

I just hope and pray we do it before our time together draws to a close.

Rolling along

"Grieving is like a roller coaster ride."
One day, the worst is over.
The next day, even the next hour, it seems like you've made no progress at all.

So true.

Beauty in each day

"While we are worrying and fretting and feeling sorry for ourselves, life slips away.

I will look around me now, this minute, and see what life holds.

Greet each day as its own gift-or it's own trial if it's that kind of day. But let's not bury the sunshine and beauty of this day under the shadow of a regretted future-about whose nature we can only speculate."-Martha Whitmore Hickman

Unafraid at last

"The spirit of tenderness, of love, will not desert you. You will find that it has become part of you, rising from within yourself; and because of it you are no longer fearful of loneliness, of the dark, because death, the last enemy, has been overcome."-Daphne Du Maurier