Grief and Loss

Since my son's death, my life is a shattered stained glass window. Many pieces are missing. I can't put it back together. Instead I have to create something new from the available shards.

Click here http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/message.cfm?l=eng&cid=18408818 to see Graham's candle, then light one for your beloved child.

 

 

 

"Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid." ~ (Frederick Buechner in Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith)

On July 20, 2011 we lost our five year old son, Christian Watson.  He was just a couple weeks away from his sixth birthday which would have been August 2, 2011.  We’ve learned over the last year and five months that everyone deals with grief in different ways.

Surviving the Suicide Loss of My Only Sibling

 

My name is Laura and I lost my only sibling, my brother Brian, to suicide in October of 2010. He was only 35.

What have I, as a mother and a pastor, learned about care for suicide survivors in the four years since my son's death?

Anthony was a star. But he faced a threat that none of us could contain

How to act and what to say to someone who has lost a loved one. I remember standing on the sidewalk next to a local shaved ice business, when I notice...

For Daniel Barden, kindness knew no boundaries. Through his constant show of compassion towards all living things, along with his effortless joy for life, Daniel taught us so much in his short stay with us.

A poem I wrote trying to articulate the disorientation I felt, and still feel, after the death of my little sister.

Thoughts on the Death of My Child

She came into the world at 8:54AM on June 16th, 1994 and I held my breath until she took her first.  Then came that little cry.  It was tiny, and fragile and so sweet.

Dannica passed away on the evening of the 14th of November, 2012.

I am a mother, nurse and Children's Author of the series The Amberella Tales.  I try to write with humor and live with kindness and compassion.  I dedicated my first book to my son and only child, Chris who died in 1999 at the age of 23.  I have reached the point in my life where I want to help other parents who have lost children navigate this journey through grief and mourning.

HerScoop presents Inspirational Mom, Susan Beresford, who shares her courageous story of losing her son Nicholas to leukemia.

After the petals have fallen - Living on after losing a child

In 2011, Emily Rapp's baby was diagnosed with Tay-Sachs disease, a genetic, degenerative condition with no cure. He died just shy of his third birthday.

 

Into the Wilderness, Parenting a Terminally Ill Child http://www.onbeing.org/blog/wilderness-parenting-terminally-ill-child/2498