Grief
What Grief Is Trying to Tell You
“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter.”
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“Grief is the soul's way of teaching us to love what we've lost, to find the hidden beauty in our tears, and to listen with our hearts to the silence left behind.”
Grief speaks. Most of us are too afraid to listen.
Beneath the sadness, beneath the numbness, beneath the anger that sometimes comes with loss, there is a message. Grief is telling you what mattered. It is pointing directly at what you valued, what you loved, what you cannot imagine living without.
In this way, grief is a kind of map. It shows you the shape of your love. The size of your grief is the size of your love. You cannot have one without the other.
If you can sit with your grief long enough to hear what it is saying, you will find not only pain but also clarity. You will know, perhaps for the first time, what truly matters to you.
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