Mary's Big Adventure
Mary, I am so excited for you! Today you start realizing a dream... and I'm sure you're excited and scared. I just hope that you're confident, because you CAN be. I am so sorrty for the loss you've experienced, and I hope that you can deal with it in healthy ways while you fully engage in your new life in France. I'll be praying for you, roomie o' mine.
Mary's Big Adventure got me thinking. I remembered, "Fear is the recoil from a new and sudden threat to something one holds dear, and a cautious regard for one's own safety: but nothing new or sudden can happen to You, nothing can threaten Your hold upon things loved, and where is safety secure save in You? Grief pines at the loss of things in which desire delighted: for it wills to be like You from whom nothing can be taken away." (Augustine)
One of these days, I'll be dealing with my own displaced grief.
Mary's Big Adventure got me thinking. I remembered, "Fear is the recoil from a new and sudden threat to something one holds dear, and a cautious regard for one's own safety: but nothing new or sudden can happen to You, nothing can threaten Your hold upon things loved, and where is safety secure save in You? Grief pines at the loss of things in which desire delighted: for it wills to be like You from whom nothing can be taken away." (Augustine)
One of these days, I'll be dealing with my own displaced grief.