~FOOTPRINTS MINISTRY, INC.~
(BRINGING HOPE TO BEREAVED FAMILIES)
Skip & Jerry Mudge
6605 Mallard Park Dr
Charlotte, NC 28269
704-509-6603

 
 

 
 

~FEELINGS OF LOSS AND HOPELESSNESS~

The day after we buried (our daughter) Hope, I understood for the first time why so many people choose medicate their pain in so many harmful ways.  That day I tried to sleep it away.  And in the days that followed, I discovered that I could not sleep it away, shop it away, eat it away, drink it away, or travel it away.

I just had to feel it.  And it hurt.  Physically.

I realized that I had a choice ~ I could try to stuff the hurt away in a closet, pretend it wasn't there, and wish it would disappear, or I could bring it out into the open, expose it to the Light, prove it, accept it, and allow it to heal.  I chose to face it head-on, trudge through it, feel its full weight, and do my best to confront my feelings of loss and hopelessness with the truth of God's Word at every turn.  Even now I can't say I'm healed.  Part of my heart is no longer mine.  I gave it to Hope and she took it with her, and I will forever feel that amputation.  But embracing my grief means allowing it to do its work in me.

~Nancy Guthrie in "Holding On To Hope"

THE BIRTH OF THE SONG  ~PRECIOUS LORD~

~HOLIDAY NEWSLETTER 2004~

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