PURPOSE AND MEANING FOR WIDOWS
Have you ever asked yourself, “Am I always going to feel this pain?” It is the intense emotional sorrow we feel within ourselves after a loved one dies. The pain that transpires into rivers of tears as we reminisce on what was and what could have been.
I have asked myself this question plenty of times, not knowing if I would ever be able to answer it one day. I struggled to see a light in a tunnel full of darkness and despair for years. It is a path with no direction and no hope.
I was now walking blind on the road we call grief. A place full of deep sorrow, confusion, and despair. The unfathomable truth of mortality had hit my family like a wrecking ball. In four months, I had experienced the death of my father, whom I loved and cherished with all my heart. I experienced the painful truth of having to bury my loving husband just after three years of marriage. Weeks later, after his death, I miscarried our second child.
All I saw was grief. It surrounded me …
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