Just in the past few weeks, since I’ve decided to publish this blog, two young women in my area have lost their husbands tragically and suddenly. I’m not sure if I really paid attention before my own loss to the other people who were suffering. I think I just thought, “Thank goodness it wasn’t us!” And put a sympathy card in the mail.
It’s all different now. I feel sad for them, of course, but now I have an action plan. I make a mental list of what they are going to need. What did people do for me that really helped. What can I do to help? I just feel called to be available to them, too. To let them know that I’m going through it and they are not alone.
When the funeral is over, the family has gone home, friends have gotten back to their own lives, I will help fill the empty spaces.
You are not alone.
