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In Reply to: Re: stages... posted by Donny on July 30, 2002 at 17:53:00:
thanks, donny. i really wasn't trying to change the subject. i just assumed most folks here knew about that. but, it did bring everything else into a different perspective in our lives.
i brought the subject up to relate to the differences in the grief process, and the concept of sharing insights that helped. not everyone's story helped us..but some sure did. i remember one lady i met. it was just a few weeks after the funeral.i had to go back to work. i was exhibitting my product at a large hotel. more than one group was using the facilities.(i was still pretty much in a daze.) across the way a conference started setting up w/ people all wearing large buttons w/ pictures of children and teens on them. one lady came over, and as she
looked over my display, i asked her what the signifigance of the buttons was. she explained to me they were "compassionate friends int'l" and they were all parents who had lost children , who's pictures were on the buttons. at that, i began to quiver all over, as tears started streaming down my face, and she immediately came behind the table and gathered me into her arms and held me as i wept and shook. she let me tell her about aimee, and then she told me about her son, who died at the same age. i cannot tell you how that woman was used of God in my life. and her reassurance that the pain would get easier was a promise i needed to hear. that " comfort others w/ the comfort we are comforted of God"
took on a whole new depth of meaning to me.
i was really wondering if folks had any stuff like that to share related to the cult- grief and recovery process. God bless.
