Stormy Seas

Anniversary days are so very difficult. They knock us out of numbness and kick us squarely back into our loss. It feels again as if it just happened. We are plunged into the tide of pain and longing and feel that we will drown in our sorrow. There is a sense of loneliness and abandonment and hopelessness and incredible missing of Joey and our old life. The only thing to do is to tie ourselves to the mast and hold on during the pitching storm, hoping it will subside before we perish.

Words of comfort from friends help so much on these days. It's like receiving a telegraph from shore reassuring us that calmer seas are ahead and that we are not alone. We grasp on to your love and care and they give us hope that we will make it through. Every word and every prayer matters to us.

So thank you for your words and thoughts the past couple of days. Your love has surrounded us in the stormy seas of grief.

Jonah 1:6

So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.