Thank you for sharing.

Thanks for sharing that. Elizabeth Harper Neeld is the author of the best book I found on grieving, the one I always recommend as it helped me so much: "Seven Choices - Finding Daylight After Loss Shatters Your World." If you can, read her book. Seriously. Well worth it. Your library may have it, I know Amazon carries it, too.

Love and Hugs,
Martha

Thanks so much Russ..a really good article with many links to other good articles and information. I really appreciate it.

Don

Well worth sharing. Thanks, Trici

Thanks a ton!!

Thank you Russ for sharing. The article is awesome and very helpful.


Love and best wishes to all my DS friends, I'm so glad I found the site,
Barbara

Thanks for sharing this article. It is indeed a good one with more good links.

Hugs, Joely

Russ,
I just read an excerpt from the book "A Sacred Primer" by Elizabeth Harper Neeld in the link you posted. Neeld is talking about the feeling that somehow our loved ones are still present with us. Here's what she says --

"The most useful way to hold these mysterious events, especially early in our grieving, is not to try to understand them but merely to acknowledge and reflect on them. Just because we experience something strange does not mean that we are 'making things up' or losing our logical faculties. We dont have to be able to explain something in order to take comfort from it or to marvel at it.

Clearly, one thing we realize when we experience moments of mystery is that we do not know everything, that there is Presence that we cannot explain. We have come, now, face to face with the truth that Life does contain mysteries. And that it is possible to be impacted most positively by something even if you cant begin to understand it."

Finally, Neeld offers this quote by Albert Einstein: "To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in the most primitive forms--this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness. There is, after all, something eternal that lies beyond reach of the hand of fate and of all human delusions."