"It is hard to believe, when we are in the midst of heavy grief, that any good will come of this. We may resent any such suggestion - as though someone is trying to offer a palliative too soon, trying to proffer a "bright side" when the whole world is darkened.

It is true that we will never be "cured" - never restored to the being we were before. But we will not be forever bereft. A larger world will present itself, a picture whose frame has suddenly expanded, leapt out, to include more than we had known. And in the expanded sense of our own world will be the presence - and the absence - of the one we love. A more shadowed world, perhaps, but a more luminous world, too."

*********Healing After Loss by Martha Whitmore Hickman

When I read this passage in the daily mediatations this morning I thought about something moi said to me...about wanting to know more about our Michael and what he was like...interests...etc.

In the hot tub, under the stars last night we got to "remembering"...it's amazing how much you remember and how much you forget. I loved being asked Moi, thank you! I'll work on it. *grin