Grief…

If  you’ve ever lost someone you loved more than life itself, then you know about grief.  Grief feels like a living, breathing thing that consumes you and fills every single part of your being.  Grief keeps you from sleeping or eating.  Grief makes it hard to breathe or even think.  Grief makes you feel that it will never, ever end.  I remember the minutes and hours and days after each of my parents died…after my two sisters died.  I remember when the love of my life for 39 years lost his battle on this earth – far from me.  I remember wishing I could just go over the grief…or around it.  I remember wishing that months had passed already…but it doesn’t work that way.  Grief is a process.  There is only one way to get past grief – and that is through it.