Life, love, and death

As I start this day sending happy birthdays to my DT in Heaven, I realize that grief has made me have an unexpected relationship with death. Funerals are unsettling to my spirit. I am unable to participate in full services. The pain that others feel from losing their love ones, opens the wounds of my own loss.

However I have found grace, hope, and mercy in the eyes, arms, and faces of others. Their pain reminds me of where I've been and how far I've come. I have found strength and wisdom in others who have lost love ones before me. I have found strength, beauty, and life in the eyes of others. I have offered my love and words of compassion for those who have lost love ones after me.

Death is promised just as life is given. I find beauty in knowing that my love ones have stepped to the other side of life, love, and beauty ✨️ ❤️

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DARRYL. YOU ARE LOVED AND MISSED 🕊