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Nancy E. Holroyd, RN's avatar

Linda, grief sucks and it plays fast and loose with our emotions. I've likened it to a wild roller-coaster ride in the past 20-months. I like your image of a corn-maze -- that works, too.

I still have my moments, at just 6-months past your husband's death, I would expect you will still be trudging along wishing you hadn't stumbled into another blind alley in that maze.

When politics is blowing up our country as we knew it--it's a lot to take in when in such a vulnerable state. It's impossible to not know and worry about what is happening politically, but for self-preservation, I have to sometimes deliberately step away from the TV, news media, even here on Substack. Thinking of you and praying you find some peace.

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Jan Pierce's avatar

Having lived through the Viet Nam years and Civil Rights, etc. I often feel that it's my duty to pay attention to politics. Even though it might be healthier for my heart to shut it out, I believe that "All it takes for absolute evil to overcome is for good people to do nothing." Of course my suffering in this time pretty much does accomplish nothing. Still I say we have to stand up and speak truth. So on to love. It is so very hard to love one's enemies when they are evil and doing evil things. Even Bonhoeffer came to the place where he was willing to fight evil rather than ignore it. I feel for your loss and know each day is a struggle. So glad you have faithful friends. That always helps. Love can look like kindness and not sniping at people. It can look like sending a kind word. But it is fair to say that love also hurts. Sending hugs your way.

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