Times of incredible, unexplainable loss brings out raw emotions that no one knows how to express. Emotions travel from anger and sadness to the question, “Why?”
So much hurt, pain, and seemingly inconsolable sadness mix poorly with the joy of the happy memories that are now cherished jewels of my mind. But they are just that – jewels that adorn the crown of a life gone too quickly. She had so much more that we wanted her to add to our crown. And we had much more to add to hers.
But here we are, with our perfectly incomplete crowns, struggling to find a reason to smile. We know that we must smile, and we must move on our journey. And we learn to make time on our journey for friends and family. To accept that they are hurting as much as we are and they are just as confused.
There really is nothing to say that will help the family or friends reconcile their loss. But each one needs to search within, to find the connection to her angels, to celebrate with them. To dance with tear streaked faces, to marry pain with joy. To rise to a new level of strength where no one wants to go, but everyone will go to find peace.
Death is not the end of the book, but a very painful ending to a chapter. So we must take up the pen and write the next chapters. We write with all of the skill that she taught us. All that she filled us with, now will be written by those still here. And these chapters will be filled with happiness and joy overshadowed by our pain. And these chapters will be the best of the best, mixed with the saddest of the sad. And the book will be glorious.
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