Dec 23, 2009 13:39
Grief in an interesting thing. It can cause the strongest walls to crumble, the weakest walls to be built, cities to stand on end, and the greatest acts of kindness. It can bring people together or it can pull people apart. It may slay lions or save butterflies. It can turn warriors into children and children into warriors. It may overcome you, debilitate you, or it may make you soar.
Love is the most incredible and diverse human emotion. It pulls souls together, and rips them apart. It dances in the shadows unheard and unseen or it dances with full glory as though it were a very life of its own. It makes you beg, makes you cry, makes you laugh, and makes you grieve.
Love is what brings our souls to bear the grief this world can hand us, it is what causes us to stay within ourselves in the greatest times of pain. It is also what causes us to allow one another to escape ourselves, to escape the pains of this world, to move beyond the fabrics one this life and on to another. Love causes the greatest of pain, the greatest of grief, but the greatest warmth, and the the greatest of peace.
At about 3am Eric and I faced the most painful decision we've had to, or I truly believe, ever will have to look at again. We will explain more to what happened when we find the words. But for now our little girl is free from all that was hurting her.