Hi Jerry- I’d love your critique- many thanks!
Asked by Liezl Anderson on October 7, 2020
Years after my daughter died a friend asked how I survived it. “I didn’t.” I said, “In many ways I died that day too.” Everything I was, everything that made sense, lay buried in the ground with her, forcing me to live a life now divided into a happy-before and a terrifying-after. Child loss is not a sad date on life’s calendar and the grief it brings is not a mere bump in the road – it becomes the road. That there is no going back to how things were has been a significant realisation as I learn to accept this new road. Her death cracked me open, completely, not a clean break but a shattering. And as I stumble around in the debris of loss, trying to collect pieces to salvage, I find that some are unrecognisable and some are gone forever. But, I’m also finding that some can be pieced back together to create something entirely new. Something desperately fragile yet surprisingly strong, a vessel so obviously broken and yet intricately beautiful as it depends on God’s grace to sustain it.
Jerry's Answer
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