When day by day, someone you love more than life just...slips away...
When there is nothing you can do to stop it...
When people try to comfort that this loss is not so bad...
When all you can do is cry...alone...
...God is there.
When a child dies, people grieve with you. When an unborn baby is lost, many understand.
But this loss...this one very few know. The loss of losing a child who lives on still. The day by day, little by little loss of a child, but not to death, not to disease, not even to harmful things of their own choosing. The loss of a child to a mother who hates his father. The loss of a child to a mother who hates God.
This is the loss of a child. My child. We are losing him. We have already lost him. I'll always be his mom, and he'll always be my son. People don't understand, but he is already gone...
And yet, the rest of "us" have to go on.
There is no doubt this is a HUGE HUGE loss, Donna. Praying for you as you grieve, while life moves on as normal for everyone else.
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