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Journey from Grief to Healing: Lessons in Patience and Hope ~ Episode 107

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In this special Father’s Day episode of “Journey from Grief to Healing,” I reflect on the importance of connections in the grieving process. My five daughters reached out with loving messages, and neighbors and parishioners also shared their kind wishes. These interactions highlight a key strategy for coping with grief: maintaining connections. While my grief remains present, it no longer dominates my life.

I discuss how turning our focus outward, rather than inward, facilitates healing. Using analogies of wound care and stepping out of a dark closet into light, I illustrate the process of healing. Renowned writer Daniel Goleman emphasizes that self-absorption hinders empathy and compassion, while focusing on others expands our world and diminishes our own problems.

Patience is crucial in this journey. Father Henri Nouwen describes patience as the willingness to stay present and trust that healing will come. Patience, fueled by hope, helps us endure and look forward to a brighter future. Adults often struggle with hope, unlike children who eagerly anticipate life’s milestones. Hope drives us to seek the light, leaving the darkness behind.

Drawing inspiration from poet John Clare, I conclude that nature embodies hope and eternal life. Like nature, we must seek the sunlight, guided by patience and hope, confident that in time, all will be well again. Join me as we explore these themes and find solace in the journey from grief to healing.


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Today’s Quote: Nature Knows

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“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Will to Win: A Poem by Berton Braley

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The Will to Win

Berton Braley

If you want a thing bad enough
To go out and fight for it,
Work day and night for it,
Give up your time and your peace and your sleep for it
If only desire of it
Makes you quite mad enough
Never to tire of it,
Makes you hold all other things tawdry and cheap for it
If life seems all empty and useless without it
And all that you scheme and you dream is about it,
If gladly you’ll sweat for it,
Fret for it,
Plan for it,
Lose all your terror of God or man for it,
If you’ll simply go after that thing that you want,
With all your capacity,
Strength and sagacity,
Faith, hope and confidence, stern pertinacity,
If neither cold poverty, famished and gaunt,
Nor sickness nor pain
Of body or brain
Can turn you away from the thing that you want,
If dogged and grim you besiege and beset it,
You’ll get it!

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Thinking Out Loud: Learn to Think and Question

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Don’t listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions. ~ Albert Einstein

NOTE: We’ve all worked with or lived with them, the answer man or woman. They have the truth. They can’t be shaken. And, they challenge anyone who would dare suggest there’s a different way of looking at an issue. I don’t know the cause of the malady. I do know one way out is to continue to question, understand, and explore. Answers don’t always come easy. They require hard word, patience, and persistence. We may discover the answer we were pursuing was the wrong answer; if we take what we learned, apply it to a different question and begin investigating we may have success. Having an open mind is always preferable to a closed mind. One grows, the other decays.

Today’s Inspiring Quote: Adjust, Adapt and Keep on Going

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“A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.”

—Helen Keller

Today’s Quote: Rise Each Time You Fall

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If you don’t fall how are you going to know what getting up is like.

Stephen Curry

Today’s Inspiring Photo: Your Star Will Shine

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Today’s Photo ~ Stay Strong ~ The Storms Will Pass

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Patience and Time Win the Day – Read Leo Tolstoy’s Quote

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“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”

Leo Tolstoy

Thinking Out Loud ~ Waiting With Patient Expectations

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Good Things are Coming Your Way

Saint-Exupéry in writes in The Little Prince, “The little prince, who watched the installation of a huge button, felt that he would get a miraculous appearance, but the flower did not finish preparing to become beautiful, sheltered in its green room. It chose with care its colors. It got dressed slowly, it adjusted one by one its petals. It did not want to come out all wrinkles like the poppies. It didn’t want to appear in the full radiance of its beauty. . . . And then, in one morning, precisely at the time of the rising of the sun, it showed up.”

NOTE: Have you ever wanted something so badly you felt as if what you wanted wouldn’t happen? I think we’ve all had that experience. It’s easy to begin to believe that it will not happen, it wasn’t meant for us, and to push our wishes and dreams aside. What if we wait with patient expectations? Then, like the little prince, we shall see our flower arriving at the precise time it was meant to arrive.

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