Truhal

The other day I got a pedicure.  The pedicurist and I struck up a conversation and I mentioned my husband passed just three months ago.   She said, I'm so sorry then asked when I planned to...

God prepared me well in advance of my loss.  He told me a change was coming and gave me the signs that would occur before the change.  Now it's here.  Fourteen months ago I would have defined...

My husband died in March of this year.  At first I sat numb, wanting my old life back and when I realized I couldn't have it back, I decided to create a new one.  I literally threw out the old one,...

Why didn't I listen to my own advice?  I've been a widow for three months now.  Actually, it's going into the forth month.  I've changed.  I used to be a very private person, not sharing with...

We are all sinners.  True.  But most of us  try to do better every day.  We fail, and we get up and try to do better. This is in response to those who mention sin as something that occurs in our...

Life is short.  Even if you live to be 120, what does that compare to eternity in Heaven.  There is an ongoing discussion on DS about dating.  Basically the morals of dating.  I've had many years...

13 months.  13 months is all it took for my life to change.  It started with a warning, a whisper in my ear from God:  You will be alone very soon.  At the time I had a husband, a bird, a dog. ...

Two days ago:I was desperate.  I was standing in a store with a credit card and two bucks in my pocket.  I'd come here on a mission.  I couldn't take it any longer.  It had been two days.  Two...

A famous writer once said 'You can't go home again'.  When I first heard that, I was young.  I took it literally.  I imagined that he meant that you literally couldn't go home again. Now, I'm old...

I hate my new life.  Less than 15 months ago, I was a woman living in a nice suburb with a 28 year old bird, a 13 year old dog, and a husband I adored.  Now, I'm sitting in the basement of my...

My previous journal entry was about the strange weather we're having in Chicago and how for a moment, I thought the rapture was about to occur.  I mentioned the sun, lightening and rain occurring at...

I'm hitting rock bottom ane still going.  My dog passed.  She was my first dog so this is all new to me.  I was there when she parted and do believe she is in heaven.  It's so hard watching my...

My mother took ten years to transition.  When she died I couldn't believe it.  This in spite of the fact that she'd been in hospice and the doctor had told me she didn't have long. Today, I was...

Thanks everyone for talking me through another crisis.  Reminding me to take care of myself is something I needed to hear.  I've since left my father to decide on his own health care.  I've talked...

I'm still struggling.  Father called and screamed at me again.  He hadn't taken his pill, a pill that prevents infection after surgery.  I'm livid, scared, alone.  It's finally come to me chosing...