“Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope.”
~Elizabeth Gilbert~
6 comments:
Simply stated and so true. Seeing others who have survived this horrible assault and are actually living life gives me so much hope. I hope to be there one day. Thank you for sharing, Jennifer.
I hope that you are surviving these hard days. Know that I am thinking of you and my birthday buddy, baby Kai. Much love. <3
Breathing.. this just resonates with me right now.....
love- L
That is so true. When I joined the Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Neonatal loss support board on the Babycenter after Jacob died, women who were further along in their grief did just that for me. I never thought I would feel any better, but someone even a few weeks ahead of me gave me hope that life wouldn't always be so painful. Now we have done the same for other Mom's who have lost their baby's more recently, even though we are still in a huge amount of pain.
I hope you don't mind my borrowing this quote and putting it on my blog.
I love Elizabeth Gilbert. She is so good at summing things up. Thanks for posting this.
Beautiful! Thank you for sharing!
So true...I felt so lost in May. Not until I joined BCC and found the blogs did I start to define a way to work through my grief. Beautiful quote. Sending loving thoughts your way!
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