The Good News Is™

When I lost my husband, I didn’t feel much like talking with my friends about it. Even though my friends are great people and I knew they would be more than willing to help me through the troubled times I was experiencing,

When someone is sick you have time to plan for a funeral. When someone dies unexpectedly you are caught off guard and don’t even know where to begin.

Most of us are cruising along through life blissfully unaware that darkness is waiting just around the next bend, never believing that an unexpected tragedy could strike us.

Parents do not want anything to harm their children or to make their children sad. The good news is a child’s life should be all about playing, smiling, and having a great time just being a kid.

Cancer is one of the worst words in the language, and the fear and the pain that it brings and heaps upon us can sometimes seem as though they are insurmountable.

Tragedies happen all the time. I’m well enough aware of that, but it’s true that you never believe something bad can happen to you and your family. As a grandparent having to deliver that devastating news to young children is unimaginable.

My husband passed away when our two sons were just nine and ten years old. The sadness and grief that we felt was deep and numbing. You don’t expect your 33 year old husband to die or that you'll be raising two boys alone. I was petrified.

It is hard to know what to say to someone that has a loved one that is dying. Call them and let them know that you are there for them. Let them talk about their loved ones and tell you stories if they feel like it.

It is difficult to know what to do or say when someone has suffered a loss. You want to be there for them but you don’t want to say anything that might upset them.

When someone suffers a loss it is often difficult to know what to say to that person. You really do care and you want them to know that you are there for them but you don’t want to say anything that might hurt them.