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How long, O Lord?

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  "How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever" How long will you hide your face from me?" Psalm 13:1 Typically, I do not write about "current events."  (Maybe, they wore me out in middle and high school).  My sojourn through grief, loss, and its aftermath following Courtney's untimely death continues the paralysis of denial and anger, mostly in fits and starts.  I've learned not to calibrate recovery on a scale of 1 to 10.  Nor can I predict when the emotional rollercoaster of grief will execute a double twist and whirl, then stop abruptly. The "current event" of Courtney's death still pulsates. However, the back story of this heart change can be traced back a little over three years.  After blogging for some months and receiving feedback only from Jan and Sherry, I decided to scan the statistics notesfromabrokenheart.blogspot.com collects. The data revealed hundreds of readers in Ukraine?   Ukraine? What?  My mind puckered as I realized