I Am Thankful
A few weeks ago, we had Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada. When people are grieving it is so very difficult to be thankful. Sometimes life can look pretty black. Even the fall colors can seem black. The branches of our lives can look pretty bleak.
So what are we thankful for in the grieving process. This is a different kind of thanksgiving. This is a thanksgiving that is not full of joy that jumps around. This is often a joy that we need to look for, deep within us; past all our pain.
It is a deep peace. Although we hurt to the depths of our beings; we are not alone.
We can be thankful for the fact that the great “Healer of our Soul” does not leave us. The “Healer” is especially close to us when we are hurting. We can be thankful for friends who love us and hold us in our pain.
We can be thankful for those we still have with us. We can be thankful that although we can see no color in the autumn leaves at first, the color will and does return in time. We have been created amazingly. We have been created to heal.
And we can be so thankful for the love and life of the person who has now left us. For without them we would not be fully who we are.
Thank you God…even in the deep pain of my grieving. Thank you God for hope of better days and that you never leave me.