This Year I Am Thankful for Falling, For Grief, For Loss

Just got home from watching RENT, just finished reading this truly extraordinary post.

Songs of thanksgving for the falling, for grief, for loss:

How do you leave the past behind
When it keeps finding ways to get to your heart
It reaches way down deep and tears you inside out
Till you're torn apart
- Jonathan Larson

We succumb to grief so we can fully live.
-  Mary Oliver

This is what things can teach us:
to fall,
patiently to trust our heaviness.
Even a bird has to do that
before he can fly.
-  Rainier Maria Rilke

Comments

[Christine]

Maybe as you find some sanity, you could pray for me. I'm lost in the abyss. Thanks. C.