Moments with Mary

GRIEF AFTER DIVORCE/RELATIONSHIP BREAK-UP Grieving after a divorce or breaking off a relationship with someone you once deeply cared for means taking a different road down the journey of grief.  Regardless, you still need to take the time to grieve the loss of an important relationship.  Not all relationships can bear the weightiness of working through disagreements, conflicts, jealousies, immaturity, and a variety of issues that crop up in staying unified in a relationship that involves two very different people.  Personalities, life experiences, conflict resolution and getting through tough situations takes a lot of communication and the ability to compromise, forgive, change direction and working together no longer works.  Many couples simply have a difficult time trying to maneuver through many of those life challenges.  Still, there remains an inner sadness because what was once a love story has soured into a relationship ending, oftentimes with unkind thou...

 LOSS OF HOME/PROPERTY With all the devastating fires, hurricanes, tornadoes and other natural disasters that can destroy homes, churches, businesses and communities within minutes, this sense of loss can bring an overwhelming feeling of despair.  To lose one’s house is not just a place filled with the collection of material items that tell pieces of our life stories like furniture, clothes, photos and memorabilia, but a living sanctuary we call home.  Not only do we grieve the loss of home but a sacred sanctuary where we once slept, worked, played, enjoyed and were our true self.  Being in a place where we can be our true self is what makes a house a home.   Getting through the loss of someone you love is a hard enough, but when you lose property it’s a different kind of loss, because you lost your bearings.  A whirlwind of memories of times shared with people we love and cared for in that holy space feels toppled with this overwhelming sense of uncer...