BEREAVEMENT VISITING invariably leaves me humbled … and enormously glad that here in Bramhall we’ve an excellent team of willing visitors whose chief purpose in our shared life is to offer the gifts of friendship. There’s a silence and a shouting in the lives of all the broken-hearted. Would that the costly gifts of time and space be made available for the sharing of both.
A dear friend of mine, reeling from the death of his beloved wife, told me:
the trouble is, Simon, I’ve dozens of people to do something with, but no-one to do nothing with.
There’s an all-important treading lightly required here: but I pray that some of us may offer gifts of friendship and encouragement to do nothing with alongside the more usual to do something with. God bless the new friends I’ve been privileged to bring together this afternoon. I don’t doubt that each will bring untold blessing to the other. A kind of nothing that is an unimaginably important something !
It is truly a difficult journey, widowhood is……….! And nothing is more annoying than to have someone ramble on at you, who truly has no idea what-so-ever as to what degree of sorrow it is.
I spend a great deal of time alone, with our 2 Tabby’s, in our big apartment, with so many precious memories of my late hubby, and most importantly, our Lord.
I have a precious 4-5 dear friends, who DO understand & I cherish their friendship because they also know its okay, to simply leave me alone……..!
Let me know if you would like our story to help others. As it has truly been through the love of our Saviour that I’ve made it this far !
God Bless.
Sheila: thank you very much indeed for this. Your story WILL help others, simply by being present here. Faith, memories and friendship. This blogging world is itself a gift of time and space for the sharing of each of these, isn’t it? God bless and sustain you, too.