Mind Over Matter
No one knows what the day will bring but just knowing you are still alive after a night’s sleep is a blessing. The minute your feet hit the floor is a call to be thankful.
Maybe you are retired and the day is your own or are hurrying to get ready for your work. Young couples have to get children ready for daycare or school by making sure they have a breakfast and are dressed properly. It can be overwhelming but if two parents work together it will be much easier.
Having lost my only child, I now look fondly on these rushed times and wish the clock could slow down and I had a few more minutes back there ... but we never have enough time.
It’s not the proper order that children pass before the parent.
“How can I enjoy the day with this loss forever tattooed on my heart?”
After going through the grief and heartache...it takes time, I tell myself I must be thankful for the years I had with my son.
That was my gift. I know he would want me to still think of each day as a blessing and not lose myself in perpetual sorrow.
There is a reason I am still here to enjoy the day.
...end of five minute freewrite with prompt - Enjoy The Day.
If you are interested in freewriting check @mariannewest’s post Here for more info.
Because of the many heartfelt comments , I edited this post to include the link to a small e-book I wrote about the premonitions leading up to my son’s passing and the photos of visitation at the gravesite can be found within.
http://www.lulu.com/shop/joanne-collicott-mcguigan/child-of-danaan-e-book/ebook/product-735201.html
@Felt.buzz made this awesome gif!
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Oh my dear friend, a terrible loss indeed and grief is a thing that nobody can advise on, as we all share it so differently.
But know only this! Your son would have wanted you happy. He is in your heart forever and it's up to you to make him proud!
Blessings and we will pray for you!
Thanks you Sir Stephen for your prayers and blessings. 💕I know I’m not alone in this kind of loss and hope I can give others strength.
Way to go Lady Jo, as you help others it will also help you.
I find the same maxim at work in the things that we do.
Helping others is a great healer for the self.
Blessings!
True indeed Sir Stephen. Love and kindness is the key to a happy life and helping others is the healer.
True indeed and you have it my sister!
Blessings and prayers for you!
May the power of the little pieces of light which penetrate the darkness give you reason to go on --Sister Joyce Rupp, O.S.M.
A lovely quote @carolkean and so fitting.
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So much strength! It's not easy but you keep fighting day after day. Recognizing that it is hard for a mother or a father to lose a child to death is a step of accepting that there are illogical things like that of the child dying first, but we must go on and live with that. Only the Creator knows why some things happen that are so painful.
I am sorry for your loss and I bless your resignation.
Thanks @zeleiracordero for your inspiring and thoughtful comment. 💕
Hi Jo, loosing a child is the biggest tragedy for parents. Is the free write totally fiction or did this happen to you? And if it did I send all my love and light.
It’s my life Angie. Thanks for your love and light. 💗
Blessings🙏
Hi. Thanks for sharing your thoughts today. I completely understand. I feel it. One can only truly know if you've experienced it yourself. No matter how it happens or why, you never truly get over it. You do the best you can and take each day one at a time. So one hand extended to another, I feel you.
Sometimes a flash of something funny said or done will come to mind to bring a smile. Those are the memories held deep inside. They always seem to emerge when we need it.
Take care, and have as best of the coming days life holds for you.
This is from me to you.
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Thanks dear @justclickindiva for the 🤗. 💕 I feel you know this feeling of loss all too well. It’s difficult to talk about it as it does bring everything back as if time has stood still.
Thanks for your heartfelt comments. Much love and blessings! 🙏 ❤️
We lost him before he could full live life at the age of 36, have a family, with grandkids, and become senior citizens as we are. That's not in the normal progression of life. Thanks so much for your connection.
I'm so sorry to hear you, too, have lost a son, @justclickindiva.
As we age, I think of my dad's comment on growing old and wrinkled and gray: Well, ya don't want to bury babies. not in the normal progression of life is right.
Now I know what I should have written to the prompt "Facelift." Maybe it's not too late.
If it's not assorted medical conditions, it's profound loss that so many of us have in common. Writing is cathartic. It makes sense we who grieve try to transform the pain in fiction. Thank you for sharing this. You already know you're not alone. If i could start a Go Fund Me and could offer up so many days of my life to add to the life of a loved one like yours, we'd have a scary number of people, I'll bet, offering up days to add to the life of someone who left this world too soon.
Hi @carolkean. Thanks so much for your kind words. And your dad was right. My mom suffered the same also as I lost a brother at a young age. I witnessed it tear her apart. Now that I look back, I can see, she never fully recovered. No matter how her family tried to ease her pain. I didn't understand at the time. I never thought I'd experience it. We never do. And we never know if and when it may happen. That's the mystery of life.
You lost a brother AND a son??? That is so horrible. I can understand your mom never being the same again. I hope you've managed to move on more than she did. The pain never goes away. We just learn to live with it. I'm so sorry for all those losses!! They get magnified far beyond losing the person; those who left behind also risk losing themselves, in part, or in whole My friend lost her brother to brain cancer at age 11; 20 years later on the anniversary of that death, her father killed himself, leaving behind a wife, daughters, and an unborn grandchild (he knew this new life was coming). How much can we lose and still go on? Some of us endure, and others end it the way that father did. We cannot understand, and most of us never see it coming...
Thanks @carolkean. I wrote a blog about what I like about myself I posted a short time ago. It was my husband I credit that helped me through these past 48 years. I guess so many people depended on me, I didn't have time to break down. It just kept coming every few years. A person never knows their inner strength until tested. Some make it through; others can't find their way through.
Thanks so much for your engagement and support. Appreciate it. Take care.
This may explain some of the stoicism of my parents:
This is unbelievable @justclickindiva. I also lost a brother when I was 15 and he was 5 yrs. old. My mother handed her grief silently as was her custom but I know the pain my parents were in.
I named my son Kevin after my brother and never thought I would go through what my mother did.
Hi @redheadpei. You know there was millions of people who have gone and will go through what you and I experienced. That's why we all are one human beings. No difference. We all laugh, cry, hurt, feel sadness and suffer through difficulties and tragedies. Once a person sheds intolerance and indifference, different beliefs no matter what, we are all the same. If people would only realize this, the world would be a better place.
Thanks so much for your engagement. Continue to feel blessed, prayed upon, and loved. You deserve it. Take care.
I’m so sorry @justclickindiva for your loss. 🤗 💗 My son was also taken at the prime of life at 35. He never had any children.
I feel your pain and wonder if it was something you needed that prompted me to open up about my son today.
One thing that I firmly believe is we have only so much time on this earth and nothing we can do will change the moment when destiny calls. What I’m trying to say is there was really nothing either one of us could have done to change the outcome.
It had to be predestined as I I had premonitions beforehand but kept thinking it must be my father’s passing as he was in his eighties then. On top of that a close cousin phoned me about a month beforehand and said my deceased mother appeared to him and said,
“Find Joanne, she will need you soon.”
He had woken up suddenly and didn’t know if Mother’s appearance was a dream or an apparition. I said she must mean my father is going to pass soon and is preparing me. My mind would not accept it was Kevin.
I do know there is more than the physical body, their spirit lives on and they do not want us to grief too long as it holds them to the earth plane.
Sending you much love and strength across the miles. xoxo
The stories I could tell you about my premonitions. They even scared me when they came to pass. Yes, there is more than the physical life. I firmly believe this for myself.
Returning same to you now and going forward. Take care.
Premonitions and certainty that there is more to this life in a next life - scary as the premonitions must be, I'd love to have the certainty and the awareness but not everyone is allowed this gift (or curse, as some might see it). Have you published - ebooks, blogs outside Steemit? Not long ago people were burned as witches for gifts of healing and seeing... we still have a long way to go in conquering superstition, bias (among science and religion), and every-day judgments from people who think we're weird.
I'm an empath but not a seer, not a clairvoyant or telepath, and all things mystical remain behind that Veil so many can see through.
@katrina-ariel has a few books about this....
Thanks for letting me know. You are indeed a unique person in your abilities. I'll take a look at the books you suggest. No. I've not published anything.
My abilities don't strike me as unique - not like yours do!
#paranormal, magical, mystical - my earliest memories are of searching for fairies and evidence that dolls come to life when we're asleep - but somehow I missed whatever signs may have been there.
I loved books like "The Borrowers" and later, cartoons like Calvin and Hobbes. I cannot bear the idea that Hobbes doesn't really come to life for Calvin. Hobbes lives!!!!
I am sorry about your lost. It must be good to have at least some years you shared together.
I hope you enjoy your days. 💕
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Thanks @wakeupkitty. ❤️ I look back on those years and realize they were special.
I don't even want to imagine how that must be like - I wouldn't want that to happen to my kids - wish you a lot of strength :)
Thanks @seadbeady. 💕 It is a parent’s worst nightmare and is surprising how many parents have lost children.
I'm so sorry for your loss. It is a very big pain.
Every day they shared together was a great gift. Those pleasant memories remain in your heart forever.
God bless you.
Thanks for stopping by and your kind words and blessing. 💕
I admire your strength, and I hope that I could be as strong, @redheadpei.
Thanks @free-reign. I appreciate your kind comment. 💕