Watercolorfrom griefshare.com
It would be dangerous to drive down the street if your attention were focused solely on the rearview mirror, looking at what is behind. Grief tends to make you look to the past, to what you lost. The pain of that loss, it's true, will be with you forever, but to move on, you must focus on the future as well as on the past.
You can either stay in that grief, or you can move on. You always have that, and you can't expect that one day you won't ever feel sorry that you lost a loved one. That will always be part of you.
Use your past to build on your future.
Lord God, You are my hope. I do not want to forget the past, but I cannot live there either. Amen.
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