Thoughts on loss...

Loss is all consuming and heartbreaking. It's weight

is felt like a blast or explosion, it is heavy and tiring.

Hope is both lost and renewed all at once, sorrow

wells up like dusk, quickly and without warning. 

Hours feel like days, moments feel like hours, 

time keeps on passing as though it is a speeding

train and we are merely the opposite track.

 Standing by in stillness, waiting.

In loss we learn to remember, to stop and take

stock of what and who we have and we share love.

We share hugs, hope and our hearts. We share 

memories, funny and average alike. We appreciate.

We appreciate what is normal or constant because

it is, because we can and because we should.

 ♥ Annie

Psalm 18:28  “You, Lord, keep my lamp burning; my

 God turns my darkness into light.”

Psalm 34:18  “The Lord is close to the brokenhearted 

and saves those who are crushed in spirit.”

Matthew 11:28  “Come to me, all you who are weary 

and burdened, and I will give you rest.”