There is an end to grief if we have the courage

 Today's thought from Hazelden is:

There is an end to grief if we have the courage to accept our personal goodness and our ongoing right to happiness.
-- Justin Langley

Making peace with our losses takes time and trust. In the past, we may have acted in ways that were heartbreaking to ourselves and others. But now we have a new choice; we can walk the road of self-forgiveness and stop punishing ourselves for past deeds, or we can decide that we don't deserve to feel good, that clinging to our pain, guilt, and self-loathing will somehow make up for some of the damage.

Believing our wrongs are too great to be righted leaves us in a perpetual state of mourning. It's a risk, but we can choose to believe that change is possible, not all at once but slowly, one day at a time.

Believing that God loves us and wants us to be happy gives us the courage to make amends and face our past head on. When we take the leap of faith necessary to grieve and let go of the past, we take back our best selves, and the lives we were meant to live.

Today give me the strength and the courage to grieve my losses. 

You are reading from the book:

Body, Mind, and Spirit by Anonymous

Body, Mind, and Spirit. Copyright 1990 by Hazelden Foundation. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No portion of this publication may be reproduced in any manner without the written permission of Hazelden.

Writer's Block: Since you've been gone

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My most recent ex, no. My first high school boyfriend and a few of my college boyfriends/lovers are my friends in Facebook. I have an ex who has kept tabs on all of my online incarnations since I started my diaryland diary back in...whenever that was. Sending me wierd cryptic messages on my guestbook & comments, just being creepy. Eventually he let me know that he was back in Austin and wanted me to come see him. Oh, and also I am the second most wonderful woman he's ever been with and he was such a fool to let me go ("let me go" would be his delicate way to refer to his cheating and knocking up the poor woman he eventually married, then divorced) ew. no. So I block him whenever I get the chance, whenever the site I'm using offers the 'block' option.