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Gary Roe
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When we feel misunderstood, rejected, and abandoned…
The death of a loved one – someone indescribably special – changes everything.
It changes us.
Because loss changes us, our relationships naturally change as well. And not all these changes are positive.
Some people we counted on disappear. It’s like they evaporate into thin air.
Others criticize, judge, and try to fix us. They inform us about how lousy we’re doing, what’s wrong, and what we need to do
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“When a child dies, dreams go up in smoke. Long-held expectations are shattered. The future we planned on is gone. Part of us died with our child. We’re shocked, stunned. We get sad, and angry. In some cases, the anger in us festers and spreads. We grow bitter. Like anger, bitterness leaks. Similar to a slow but”
― Shattered: Surviving the Loss of a Child
― Shattered: Surviving the Loss of a Child
“Loss is heavy. The death of a child is crushing. It shatters hearts. Once some of the shock dissipates, a deep and abiding sadness begins to leak out.”
― Shattered: Surviving the Loss of a Child
― Shattered: Surviving the Loss of a Child
“When a child dies, dreams go up in smoke. Long-held expectations are shattered. The future we planned on is gone. Part of us died with our child. We’re shocked, stunned. We get sad, and angry. In some cases, the anger in us festers and spreads. We grow bitter. Like anger, bitterness leaks. Similar to a slow but raging infection, it seeps into our souls and then pours out of our hearts and into our lives—and onto the lives of those around us. Losing a child is such a tragedy, such an unexpected shock that any of us can easily wind up here. Unexpressed, unresolved anger can give birth to a reservoir of bitterness, perhaps without us even realizing it. Bitterness is not unusual in cases of child loss, but it is not healthy or helpful. The loss of a child is hard enough without being complicated by this internal, cold, festering rage. Bitterness can dupe us into indulging deeper in its poisons, causing us to pile up regrets that confuse and complicate our grief.”
― Shattered: Surviving the Loss of a Child
― Shattered: Surviving the Loss of a Child
