Facing Reality...COURAGE (R = REALITY)

I need to clarify something about the

previous post. I am not looking for

sympathy or pity...almost everyone has

suffered a loss of some kind in their

lives. The object of my last post was

having the courage to face the

photograph that gave proof

of the REALITY of my own heartbreak

and how I am learning to face

it and in the process try to understand

how to live again...despite my heartbreak.

It has been a long 4+ years...and

the process will take many more.

I'm not giving up on life...just giving in

enough to allow myself to really feel the 

hurt and to process the pain, so that

eventually healing can come.

So now that I come to think of it,

after an email from another mother

that lost her daughter...yes...my word for

the letter R in COURAGE would have

to be REALITY...learning to face the

REALITY of that photo and the

REALITY of that tragic accident that

took away our only beloved son.

I must face REALITY instead of trying

to hide from it if I shall ever gain

True COURAGE.

Facing this REALITY has put me

under for almost three weeks. It is

truly a long, hard journey...down

this road called grief.

~ COURAGE ~

R = REALITY