A Place of Reflections

Photo Credit: Adobe Photo Shop Art Tutorial   Being able to express your grief ~  The Challenge of Grief at Holiday Time ~ I    was based around being able to 'talk' or 'share' about departed loved ones to help a person process their grief, their loss, their impact. Expression is vital ~ especially with young children. A few years back I saw this film clip of a young widow being interviewed. She had three small children. I think her husband had been killed in the war. At Christmas time, she asked her children if they'd would like to draw a message to Heaven for their daddy. She had a particular wall she would put the Christmas tree at, around that tree, placed on that wall would be her childrens' drawings ~ EXPRESSIONS for their daddy, Jesus Christ, Heaven.  They were in their third Christmas season of doing this. She said she was saving and preserving their messages, they were precious to her and if at some point when the ch...

Photo Credit  Adobe Photoshop Art Tutorial  As a little girl, my maternal grandfather had a heart attack on Thanksgiving (we weren't there). He died on December 3rd. Four days after Christmas the same year (December 29th), my daddy died in an industrial accident. I briefly spoke about first being widowed young with a child to raise in  The Little Prayer Book That Could and Did . The massive and fatal heart attack that came upon him happened in December, (right after Christmas and before New Years). That particular blog post mainly focused on my late-in-life marriage, the loss of that husband who was diagnosed with terminal cancer one mid-November and died mid-January two months later and my grief.  I am not an expert in dealing with grief. I am quite an expert at having personally experienced the exquisite excruciating pain of grief.  Today, I want to focus on grief, children and...