1. Shock and Denial
2 Pain and Guilt
3 Anger and Bargaining
4 Depression, Reflection and Loneliness
5 Upward Turn
6 Reconstruction and Working Through
7 Acceptance and Hope
Well, here's the list. Too bad that it doesn't really follow this tidy little progression. The web page where I found the list was referring to grief related to death, and that's touched two of my co-workers lives last week. But I think it's the same for the loss of a love, maybe even worse since I know he's right over there, still living and breathing and rejecting me. That hurts worse than death. At least with death, it's easier to accept the finality of it. I'm having another morning of sobbing, I wonder how it's physically possible to have so many tears inside. The boys are gone. Ben leaves for work at 4 AM. Chrish went to the lake for the week. The silence is oppressive.
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This Too Shall Pass
by Helen Steiner Rice
If I can endure for this minute
Whatever is happening to me,
No matter how heavy my heart is
Or how dark the moment may be
If I can remain calm and quiet
With all the world crashing about me,
Secure in the knowledge God loves me
When everyone else seems to doubt me
If I can but keep on believing
What I know in my heart to be true,
That darkness will fade with the morning
And that this will pass away, too
Then nothing in life can defeat me
For as long as this knowledge remains
I can suffer whatever is happening
For I know God will break all of the chains
That are binding me tight in the darkness
And trying to fill me with fear
For there is no night without dawning
And I know that my morning is near.
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