Moments with Mary

                                                                                                  Secondhand Grief There is an innate connection we hold with people who have lost a loved one.  Even if we don’t know the person(s) who died, we can emotionally connect to those feelings of loss because of our own experience of loss.  Embracing the sorrow someone else is holding in their hearts because of tragedy or war or disease or accident or violence, whether our awareness came about from the news or a friend of a friend, still brings a sense of divine connection from a deep wisdom within - because we understand what it feels like out of “knowing” that kind of pain.   Let us stay connected with those who are grieving with our s...

THE GRIEF BRAIN I liken our grief brain to being in a tundra.  Whenever you think about your loved one or what you have lost…those thoughts go through a vast expanse of nothingness and swirl and echo and resound within, but feeling quite like everything is happening outside of us.  Far away but ever so close.  Inside.  It’s quite extraordinary really…entering into surreal.  To be numb.  To feel nothing.    I believe since our creation, God is there for us in any situation.  We can't always feel the hand of God leading us through the vast expanse of pain or loss or emptiness.  But God is there.  Every moment.  Every time.  Always.   He [God] led you through the vast and dreadful wilderness...”    Deut 8:15 For more information visit https://www.chaplainmary.net/ Or check out my book: https://www.amazon.com/Skirting-Thin-Veil-Meaningful-Life-Changing

GOD GOES EVERYWHERE WITH YOU Sometimes people who are grieving or going through really difficult situations just don’t think God is there.  God is always there.  God is with us in the wind.  In the stillness.  In the sky.  In the chaos.  In the loneliness.  In the darkness.  In the nothingness.  In the pain.  In the emptiness.  Inside of each of us.  God is omnipresent.  God is everywhere.  When things seem to go from bad to worse, God is still there.  The truth of the matter is…when God feels the furthest away is when God is the closest to you.   God speaks to our innermost being, especially in the silence.  Like breathing, God is the inhale to every exhale.  Silent.  Still.  Natural.  God is there…filling you with the grace you need to continue.      “After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire.   And after the fire came a g...