Faith Through the Journey

If you have ever experienced the death of someone close to you, either a relative or friend, you know the range of emotions you journey through. If this was unexpected, you experienced a kind of shock, disbelief that this could really be true. After shock comes a merciful numbness, the place where you are going through the motions of life but don’t think about what you are doing; you act strictly from memory, not from any original thought process. At some point, the numbness begins to wear off and reality begins to close in, the reality that that person you loved will no longer be part of your life on a daily basis, that all you now have of them are your memories. There will be no more phone calls, no more celebrations of joyful events, no more hugs or sweet words. The hard work of grieving is only beginning…