This is a place for all broken grieving hearts to come, its my safe haven and I share this with all of you to be your safe haven. I am hoping through my journey of grieving as well as my real life experiences through grieving I can help all through their darkest hours, to ease the pain a little less, to maybe just give an ear to listen because sometimes that's all we need.


I am willing to bare all to each and everyone who comes to this blog. I want no one to be shy of anything. I want anyone to ask question's, tell their stories with pride. No one will judge you, or think you are different. We are all here going through the same thing GRIEVING. This is my safe haven, your safe haven. The place to heal, to find your smile again. Through this all I am on a journey to writing a book as well "The Grieving Path To Joy".

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Dec 29, 2014

Happy Never Ending



It's a funny little thing in life that when you look to something so dark, so hurtful to all your being that once through it turning around as you shed the pain and the darkness fades you find the power of love through it all, you find the AMAZING GRACE in a total surprise to your every being how once something that hurt you so badly to the core was in all actuality a life time lesson of the greatest of moment to you, a gift behind the dark fogged that lifted as you took each and every hard step forward through it, scared, skeptical, afraid to fall and not get back up to find yourself rising when you felt as though the whole time you were sinking.  

When you feel at your worse know that in that worse if you keep walking you will find the power invested in you to find the greater of good.  It does not ever stop there once you walk through the tears, heartache and pain your so much greater than that great you find through it all there is so much more to find, to walk, to fall down, yet to your life it is of such great worth to know by the power of God he is handing you the more and more you are worth if only you allow yourself to face that pain, that dark, that fear, to acknowledge what is talking to your soul and to not turn cheek to the cries your heart whispers to you, to know in every fail it is not a fail it is a path leading you to you the path you are gently being pushed to.

I wandered life far too long in the shadows of fear to come to understand if you do not move your life does not move, to feel life is against you is a fear in you avoiding the hard you know you have to feel yet again, to accept that your forever challenges, fears and changes are not easy yet growth, miracles and blessings calling your name, that the easy is not ever the way, to understand and bring out to life the things you know that need to be fixed, to say out loud and clear what it is you know you need to be changed for the better and battle that fear to find your forever guiding light through it all is the motivation to never want to stop no matter what you have to face, no matter how many nos you have to hear, know in all the nos, the rejections that it is all a great miracle leading you to the place you are meant to be greater than how you feel it should of been in your mind. 

 

Open your heart fully to address what it is in you that you feel needs to be, the needs of your dreams your purposes, your growth.  I always felt it be lights, camera, action for me, I felt to make an impact I had to just be in the spotlight, far from the truth at hand, my purpose, my dream, had a different direction for me, to fight that leads you forever in a circle finding no way out.  Acknowledging the problems you feel, saying them out loud and facing them is the greatest reward to your heart, mind, soul and life like you never could of imagined it ever be.

I found myself getting turned down interview after interview to stop and listen in my silence to find myself to know to lift up, let go and let God find me and show me my way, he placed me in a place that i'd never would of ever thought be, yet a place as soon as my foot touched ground a place my heart instantly over flowed with joy with an instant of a beat of my heart, I looked back to being a caregiver to my husband when he was sick how hurtful it was to do yet how powerful it was to be a person to love with all my heart and be there for the need of others, to gracefully see now that I was placed in a position of others that are so full of love and light that look to me for my care I seen the bigger picture of how something so painful can so quickly make your heart beam with such over powering love that your dream instantly takes a different vision than you thought how it should of been within a blink of an eye.

  Being a caregiver to my husband passed was yet again his way showing me where my heart and soul was meant to be, to be in service to beautiful souls that need all the love and care that I can give.  To be of service with nothing but heart is my purpose, that is my dream, to love to be where you were so gently placed is something I can never explain strongly in words yet only to feel it to the core of my whole to the tips of my toes is my dream I thought never be, a dream I never thought was there.  Only by surprise and the grace of God to find through all the rejection the nos and forever feeling hopeless, I have found the hope, the love, the dream, the bigger picture.  To care for others as I have been gifted as I have with my husband passed brings tears to my eyes of nothing but absolute love, joy and a forever feeling of walking in the clouds.



You see through the hardest of my times so strongly struggling to find my way I never stopped, even though dreams seemed to fade that dream was a dream that I never opened my heart fully to know, to see, it was a dream of purpose God had instilled in my life that through it with his love and guidance I had to accept and find, no matter how scared, how lost I felt through it all I found my way, God don't ever end your possibilities and things you can do in life or the growth you have in you, he expects and instills the biggest of the biggest in you, that just when you feel it ends after going through all you have already more is on the horizon.   

Yet as scared and tired you may be, there is a force that never lets you fall, you may take a little bit of time to accept that more is there for you in fear and tiredness yet you know why stop now when you know before the great you've got to endure the worse is there first, you know in all of you through it the greater is at the end of it all, to be patient and willing to keep getting back up with grace and love each and every time, you know it is there for you, your goals, your growth, your light, your bliss, the forever over flowing of blessings pouring out into your lap is always there if you accept the dark and the fear and find your bigger, and bigger and endless joys and dreams of life.  God don't look to you as little he looks to you and your life with big, big forever accomplishments and growth, there is no ending to what you can do, your limitless once you find the path your love is calling you to. 

I found myself in a fear, thinking I have so much already that there possibly couldn't be anymore in me to change, yet to my surprise there was, there is and it was something, it is something that has been crying for me for so long now, afraid to bring it to the surface and mend it,  I found myself yet again stuck, saying to myself "how could I let this happen when I have seen so much already, that I know what I need to do, so why am I denying the parts of me that need my love, my mending?", the fear of saying it out loud, the fear of what others may think of me if they found out, the fear of the hard work to get through it, I yet again found myself in the face of the dark in fear of what will be,  instead of walking strong through it at that moment I hid and denied and fought, knowing all to well that is not what leads you to your growth, to the greater and greater and endless blessings to the life you have been given.  



So I said it, I accepted it not as a weakness but as a challenge that through it is my growth, my light, a part of me that will grow to be stronger and lead me to yet again to the side of the surprises of the greatest of my blessings coming to life for the greater good.  It was not a weakness to face the fear of knowing I needed to address a chemical imbalance that I denied for so long, it is a gift to becoming whole, to being a light for others afraid as well.  To fight the fear to find a place for my little girl and I to finally start our new life together, without the safety net of home, to stand tall an begin my life independently to the fullest and start to drive, all fears yet now a burst of excitement in knowing in that fear and hard times to make it through the endless amazing dream of possibilities given to me to conquer not fear.

I have truly been touched to know that in fear, hurt, tears and pain it is Gods gift to gift you to understand your life is endless of dreams, love, purpose and great growth and achievements, his love for you is endless, his dreams for you are endless, therefor you have to be the one to walk that walk, to keep walking that walk, knowing no matter how long it may be it may feel,  your life of great joy, bliss, dreams of reality are in it all through it at the end of the shadows that lay behind once it clears, to your delight,  your eyes see bright, your heart lifts to the clouds, your smile becomes endless, the doors are all open sparkling with the bliss of the calling of your name, and it is the surprises of the way you thought it should be yet turns out totally different is truly where the sweetest of blessings will always be, no matter how you thought it should be you will never ever feel disappointment only the melody of your heart singing God Bless this moment.  The unseen AHA'S are the greatest gifts to your life, no words can ever describe.

Bryan Chadwick my love, my rock, my forever reminder of love of unconditional, God chose you to work through you unto me and that alone is the biggest of blessings to my surprise, my heart, my soul.  God working through people, that right there is gift we all need to bring out of us and shine bright, but to see it in action is a miracle of the greatest love ever.



Clipped wings can grow again.  Broken wings can regain a strength and beauty unknown before.  If you will, you can be released and free.  I pray that I may be freed from things that hold me down.  I pray that my spirit may soar in freedom.
~24/Hour Book~





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May 14, 2014

Be the Leader not the eyes of Blindness





This is the picture that lighted a spark of fire in me to open my eyes to start thinking of all things I have seen and so strongly tried to take on alone to change, to understand that so foolishly believed we have come so far to now know we have not come as far as some believe we have.  

Are you the person that looks past the evil that lurks in the world that with blind eyes knows the past has never really gone anywhere?, just to be covered and coated to look pretty and invisible to the eyes of today.  Are you truly the person that quietly walks passed a man/woman that lays on the concrete,  outside,  homeless and hungry?, to look past a child who is being mistreated, a bully bullying another, racism that lurks in places never thought of?,  to think,  it cannot be,  those days are over and is suppose to be of the days of the past.   

How about as being a female thinking of the days we had no say that we have come so far?, do you find yourself strongly in you wanting to think these are all things that truly are not still happening in this world to believe out of ignorance that it is still no longer.  We as individuals are always told the past is the past, that the past is in the past, however that past of such hatred lurks around us yet with eyes masked by society and the sugar coated of making these things look invisible to our eyes are there and to over look that thinking it has been left in the past is the ways of others who over look it all makes you to believe it cannot be so.  

Do you feel that only one you as one person cannot change the world alone?,  to be afraid to face those demons face on to only fall and fail.  It is you and only you that little by little, with little acts of kindness, with being the purest of love you were created to be here on this earth with the love of the creation of our love holds on to more power in you than ever known,  if only you tune into that and know that one person can build a bridge for those stuck in a life of hopelessness.  




It is you that is here to be the leader in your side of the world, to help, to change, to be strong, to be vocal and do not let these things that are masked that so many turn cheek to denying there selves to believe that it cannot be so.  When I see a person outside alone, cold and hungry I may not be able to give him or her a home but I can feed them, give them something warm and give that unconditional love.  I can see the ugly in the world to do my little acts of kindness to change and be the change to start the change of the evil that still lurks of the ghosts of the passed.  

As it is to you that can be as well, it's in the little that snowballs to become bigger and bigger in this life, good acts always outcast the bad, the more good the less and less that bad shrinks to no longer hold the power it once did.  As far as being afraid to fail because what you are faced against is bigger than you is only the negative trying to keep you from doing what your suppose to be doing.   Don't be fooled but the pretty is the ugly  masked  and not visible to the eye of those who want to believe the ugliness of the past is gone.  

You may be of one person but if you truly think you have the power of the creation of unconditional love, that with God on your side he always will bring you passed your greatest of challenges in love, faith and belief.  We were put here to help, to love, to create a world of the purest love, so why waste time to ignore the acts of evil that cross your path, turning in disbelief that this life is all rainbows and peace.  I read a post today that brought out the fire in me to start seeing that things of the past are still everywhere we are, that they will never go away if we as a whole,  as a person forever turn away and believe it can`t be.  




If you fall, if you fail, that is all just even more reason for you to see the evil is there and does not want you to see it and change it, it wishes to keep you down and bounded to the blind eyes of so many.  You are one person, I am one person, but if one person after another stands strong to face these evils of the past soon enough in all parts of this world there will be leaders forcing out the hatred and bringing in love, the love we are all put here to be, forming a world of helping, loving, becoming stronger and wiser.  

There is never a situation that my heart will allow me to walk past, a woman crying alone, I approached her in fear yet walking past that fear I approached her, to later find out what she shed tears for had mended and worked out, a man just here from Africa was being taunted by ladies to see you could clearly see they wanted him to do the worse to get him in trouble, to approach the situation no matter how scary,  to distract the man of the evil that was trying to bring him down and ignore that and see that love and good people still do exist.  It is little acts that you are so terrified of but face that fear coming out to see the brightness of what this whole world can be and will be.  

In all of us is a leader of unconditional love, it is not to look out for just yourself and leave others behind, it is to be fully there for those who need the hand of your love to be helped through things that so many turn their back to.   I know that if each and every day I do all that I can to change the bad of this world that it will reflect to the ends of the world showing so many they can to.  Nature is part of us, the beauty of the growth in nature, a mother bird feeding her babies, squirrels running and playing, looking around to see the beauty that grows as the same we are the creation, created as the same as the beauty of nature that takes our breath away and brings peace to our hearts.  




As being the creation of that beauty it is us as well is a part of that great love.  So why turn cheek to the greatest gifts in you to be that brightest purest of love, to be peace, to be like the mother feeding her babies helping them to grow, the squirrels that play but do not know each other.  As of the love of nature so are we one with that all.  The acts of love outshines the darkness that always tries to put barriers on of all that is good, but to keep fighting is what diminishes that darkness, yet will always lurk it's ugliness again and again to those that let it.  

For those who think they are better or hold a power blinding others, little do they know through brightness of good they are unveiled and will also fall to their knees in knowing they are no better or powerful to anyone, that all here on earth are equal.  Yet it takes the huge strength of one to start that blindness of many to open eyes of the real life happening around them.  It's not about lifting your life up and stepping on people around you to get where you want to be faster than the rest, or believing that your better than those you step on.  

I am one person with a heart full of love that believes in changing the ugliness that should not be no longer, I feel the hard falls, so will others but getting back up each and every time holds the almighty power of change, the change of love, the change to vanquish the evil that lingers all over the world disguised in pretty and peace.  Heart fully open will allow your heart and eyes to see things of the passed have never really changed, maybe it has gotten better but to be all better it will take many leaders to change that little to be completely better and rule out that darkness.  It's been too long to keep letting the past lurk in our future, to walk passed it, to ignore it, to deny that it is even there.  




You, me, all of us that live with open heart can see the truth behind the masks.  In our own little ways we can each and every day make that evil less and less and show others they to can as well.  "I AM THAT, I AM",believe strongly that you are an equal, be humble, be gentle, be a giver, be love because the past of evil can only become stronger if we let it.  I refuse to let the passed of women being nothing take part in this world today by those so stuck in darkness believing and being afraid that change is for the worse, that darkness is their light, that thinking if women were just as equal in their believes they would be nothing.  

The sick twisted thoughts of evil always has a way to making the bad sound good.   This one person ain't letting evil break the love that has come so far in this world, I may be one but in the one lays that Godly love to always walk each step that I walk in fear but changing the world little by little.   It is in us all to know we can walk through the darkness to make through to our light, that light always lightens darkness no matter what we battle.  Women, man, we are all of equal no matter what the evil makes you believe.  Are you afraid of a women to do what you do better?, that is evil talking no one is better than another we all work equally here in this world, your gifts may be different than mine, mine different than yours but never one better than the other.  

It is truly time to unmask the pretty of ugliness that fools so many into believing it is no longer, to let others see it for what it is, what are we if we talk but do no action?, it may be scary, it may be tough, but nothing as evil as what lurks in today will be easy, life is not easy because in the tough you find your powerful lessons and strength.  I no longer accept that this ugliness deserves to walk around in this future we are building to so hardly, honestly, lovingly, I most definitely refuse to ever believe as a woman I am less of a man, man, women, it does not matter you to me,  me to you equal will always be.  Walk your life tall, strong, brave, change the evil that you can, start a following of leaders that do the same and soon say good bye truly to the past.




Does not matter where you are, fear is your conquer in the end to realizing that fear was just a hollow image trying to keep you down.  Each and every one of us holds a piece of us in everyone stranger or not, different race, religion, man. woman, look to another knowing in them is piece of you making you no different than what you see before you, as though a reflection in the mirror, cast away the fear, the darkness, the ugliness, to the future of a bright light so bright your eyes hurt but smile in knowing that in the brightest of bright you helped to vanquish the dark of the now and our future.










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May 7, 2014

One with Nature One with Love


Part of a journal entry of my husband passed journals that I do not think it was for no reason I came upon it this week.

I am in the moment of my life where everything feels new, everything is new, starting over may bare the pain of horrific pain like no other yet at the same time as you look around you see things in a totally new way, as though things that once looked at before seem more vibrant, seem more beautiful, your heart this time around sees everything along with your eyes.  It is as though your eyes of your heart are making your eyes open widely, you look to something that just was a tree but this time your heart sees it as the beauty of all the wondrous of living things all around you that brings peace to your heart as you just sit, shut out the world and breathe.  

In the air, the breeze, the trees, the flowers, the grass, the animals of nature, the clouds, everything all around you comes a smile from the heart in awe of where true peace lays for you in moments of your despair, sadness and pain.  Never once before have I ever opened up to all of life how I have now, and ask myself "why have I waited so long to see life truly and so vivid as it should of been seen?".   I then smile in knowing in the lessons of my loss I give great thanks to my husband passed for opening the eyes of my heart, as the way he seen life every day he was here that was always over looked by my life I never knew of before "being in the moment", being right in this very moment. 

In nature you feel one with everything all around you and in that one is LOVE, that is when you feel the most love that surrounds and in feeling that love you feel the love that never leaves you, you created with your loved one passed.  It's coming up on three years since I lost my husband passed and like every year I find myself how shocked I am of the sting of pain that still is felt so deep in all of me, yet in my ways I am also surprised that just as fast as that pain comes leaving me feel in total debilitation how fast it leaves, in awe of the power of prayer, the wind that gently touches my cheek, my smile that surprisingly comes back to my face, the peace that settles in all of me, coincidence?  I do not think so, once you get yourself into a place, a special sacred place that you love that removes all negativity that once surrounded your whole being.  


"Symbolism of  Robins", Robins represent spring, new beginnings.  The red breast is a sign of honor, a badge of courage.  Legend has it that a robin got its red breast when it tried to remove a thorn from Christ's crown of thorns when he was crucified.  The thorn pierced the birds chest, thereby causing it to bleed".

If you find your ways you will find your strength to understand in that space no harm can be done unto you, only LOVE is seen and felt.  That is truly when you are allowing yourself to see from your heart, when you hear the whispers of beauty speaking to you all around you in the beauty of where you are.  

The power of prayer is always often under estimated, through the hard times of my days before now I prayed, I prayed to God, I prayed to my husband, my angels and it is of no coincidence that through that I have felt the ease of my pain, to look around to the beauty that surrounds me to smile, to feel peace to know through it all is that love, the love you lost is all around you if you find your place and just be all there in the moment in silence and taking in each breath of it all.

  Then the over powering of the loss of my father takes on with the loss of my husband making me feel I cannot breathe, tears may fall but this does not mean that is weakness setting in that will stay with you, a good cry replenishes the old to breathe in all the new, after the tears you realize this is not how it should be, the loss is there but the love resides, these special loves of your life become a stronger presence in your life than ever before then they were while here in the flesh.



  In surprises they are the guidance, signs, to every step you take in life, they are the surprises that find a way to your heart to guide you a path bigger and brighter to what you could of ever imagined, they don't miss your stepping stones, your happy moments they are the ones that brought you there.  So if you find yourself saying after a great accomplishment "I wish they were here to see this" remember they are, they are the ones that helped guide you to get there. 

 I always laughed in frustration why it was my husband was so into the outdoors, yet through him I have found the greatest of blessings to my heart why he did, in guidance of all he loved to do I find in doing what he loved finding my little pieces of treasures to see exactly why he loved what he did.  

So no matter what anniversary it is that you lost your loved ones passed do not despair that sting of pain that you feel each year that it comes along, because grief is a thing that never leaves us, it is the constant reminder of the piece of our heart we lost, yet smile in knowing the lessons of great strength and growth you take on through each year, holiday, anniversary, special moments of remembering.  



The secret is there is no secret you use what you have in all of you to make it through the days of your hard times, you will find through each day surprisingly you find the tools for your own needs to make it through, don't be fooled though each little piece you gain that helps you through your pain is given to you through the love of your angel and God himself carrying you through to each peace that you feel through the pain that once was, to see the beauty and blessings that find there way to you and your heart.  

My husband passed laugh is what gets me the most, I stop in silence to remember his laughter and just how high pitched it was, like it sounded like a girl,  that makes me laugh in remembrance of it to find my tears turn to a smile.  I remember just how he was placed in my life to shape me to the person I lost a long time ago,  I believe in all of me graced in my life by the hands of God and his love, my angel here on earth to show me that my life, that my life alone was so much more than my heart and eyes were seeing.  

Remembering the touch of his warms hands and whole heart hugs he gave so freely as many times a day he could.  Remembering our special moments of how the happiness and power of love consumed our every days, reminds me there is no pain in that at all, to leave the pain out no matter how tight the grip may seem on you to let it go to know it was in those memories you felt your happiness to let go of that grip that strongly tries to keep you captive.  



To honor the love of life all around you, to know in the one of it all is nothing but that love you been blessed upon by all your loved ones passed.  Gods creation of love is all around, it grows, it breathes, in that special of it all is a reminder just as beautiful as it is all around you that you as well are the creation of that love and that beauty.  Grateful to of found journals my husband kept that he wrote every day of what he did for a very long time, I smiled in knowing just how much of a treasure it was to find, I cried but soon after that cry I found the miracle of all of our love in them journals, stories of our milestones, our memories, our love.   

I remember being in my spot outside in thoughts of my husband passed to suddenly see three robins flocking to where I was all at the same time and feeling nothing but the warmth of great peace and love,  aligning yourself with all of the beauty of nature is to aligning you heart to all of the love in the world to lift you past your pain to understand in every beauty of a moment in nature is piece of your loved ones passed.  It is never of no coincidence that once focused in the moment of the beauty that seeks you that you find a moment where your heart just knows that love is there and stronger than it ever was.

Anything that puts a smile on your face is not of no reason, that smile was brought to you for a reason, to grace you with peace in knowing you are never walking your life alone, that through each and every single day you are tuning into the higher frequency your heart should, that in that highest of frequency is your true gift of many doors that open handing to your heart all of what you need to make it through your hard times. 



Remembering my husbands passed smile reminds me of the sun that shines bright unto me each and every day.  Remembering his love that was stronger than anything is reminder to me that earth angels are put in our life for a reason, that now not seen the power of their gifts become stronger to you and all walks of your life you go through.  Aligning with nature is a powerful frequency that opens the gates full of the love of all of this world, because as nature was a creation of love so were all of us, and each of the creation of nature lays a piece of us and our love.

So a little funny before I sign off, one of many funny moments of my husband passed, we all gathered to visit at my moms and through the night on the couch our daughter had put a plate of cookies, my husband not knowing sat down on the cookies, while all of us laughing and tearing up from laughing so hard as he stood up the cookies were stuck to his behind ha ha, still not knowing what we laughed at so hardly he laughed not even knowing why then realizing just as our daughter grabbed a cookie off his pants and took a bite, it is through the funniest, greatest of memories we will find that pain is never stronger than the memories forever locked in our hearts to use every time we feel the bad days of pain and the sting of the loss.

Nature is purest of love, as is you are in alignment to all of its beauty and love.  






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