Tag: loss of love

"When it’s over, that’s the time I fall in love again…" ~Sugar Ray

The more deeply I accompany my grief of late, the more resounding are my feelings of gratitude. It becomes powerful when we allow ourselves to befriend loss and know it for the lifelong companion that it is. You would have to be a fool to not recognize how blessed you are—for all the many ways life is working right in this moment and, even more so, for all the people that you love and have ever loved. This is, in fact, what it means to grow up, or at least grow old; to acknowledge that loss is the inevitable outcome when we love. Loss and grief are not just a consequence of death–they live in us when relationships end, friendships wither, homes burn down… We have and we let go, that is the nature of love.