Pass Through Pain to Eventual Acceptance of Loss, Bonaventure Funeral Home

http://www.bonaventurefh.com/blog/62/something-to-think-about-in-acknowledgment.html  Read this post entitled "Acknowledgement" by Kyle Nikola, President of Bonaventure Funeral Home.  Healing takes time...it helps when family and friends recognize the phases.  Have a blessed day!  Janet Collins 

Please Stay One More Day

I was inspired by the young people around me this evening... the big red tractor looked like a fun ride on a perfect summer night... let's cut the grass!  Okay... so instead of a nap I gave a few lessons.. and then sat back to let go.  I applauded inside their steps forward to a responsibility...and even though the lines may have been uneven... and the fact that I had to spend the evening with the blower behind them... couldn't dampen my feeling of pride for what they chose to do.  As I told them they did a beautiful job... their faces just glowed.  After all isn't that more important...is it not most important... to inspire?

I started to ponder and became inspired to write.  I want to say to young and old...as the markets are tanking right now and we seem to be working harder for less... I just want to say please stay one more day.  What I mean by that is even though you may be in the darkest of places hold on.  Reach out to people who will encourage you... who even though things may not be perfect as you attempt figuring out your life's purpose... just keep going.  Throw everything you have at what you believe in, what you love, what inspires you... because God doesn't make mistakes.  The good and the bad weather is endured and celebrated by all of us. 

This time last year a childhood friend of mine passed on.  She didn't want to stay one more day.  I don't know what to say about that... what a painful place she must have been in... but I want to say to anyone here that is experiencing a friend contemplating suicide or who has witnessed such a thing by now this:

Please stay one more day.  We will... find a way.  After all...it is okay.  So please stay...one more day.  We will figure it out this beautiful day... wouldn't it be nice to find a way?  So let us pray and find a way so that we can stay...one more day.

Our hearts are bigger than our fears... bigger than our disappointments... bigger than the world even.  We will find a way.  If this touches you please... feel safe to write to me anytime at royalsequel@yahoo.com

To my darling Holly.  You remain my inspiration.  Your life mattered and it does live on.

All my love,
Janet