Saturday, February 27, 2021

The Next Chapter For You




This blog was started to encourage family caregivers.  I began this blog after caring for my first husband, Wayne, for four and a half years.  After many happy years together with my first husband, the last few years were difficult.  Wayne became more and more disabled due to a rare neurological disease called Multiple Systems Atrophy.  He was totally dependent on me in the end and passed on January 2, 2011.  Yet I loved him to the end.

One never forgets those whom we have loved.  There is a sense in which one always grieves their loss.  Yet through slow healing one can and must find new joy and purpose again in life.  If you are a widow, this can happen by remaining single.  A widow or widower often has time to pursue wonderful volunteer activities and services to others that she or he did not have time to do in their married life.  

It also may mean remarriage and finding love again.  Remarriage does not mean forgetting or not occasionally grieving one's first love.  How could we do that even if we tried?  Remarriage is just one way to move on to God's next chapter for us.  In the same way as one loves more than one child in one's family, so it is possible to love and marry again.  

Below is  a link you might find helpful explaining that concept.  I hope you find it a blessing as I did:


If you are a former caregiver who has lost the love of your life, take time to heal.   Yet work toward healing and joy again.  This may mean living as a single person the rest of your life.  It also could mean remarriage.  Second marriages have their own challenges, as does living as a single the rest of your life.  Yet be open to God's leading and next chapter for you.

3 comments:

  1. Dear Sharon, You have such worthwhile things to say, please keep on writing and sharing. Yes, we will never forget, but that doesn't mean we wallow in grief nor does it mean we never love again. Sorrow and joy learn to co-habit within us, just as they did in Christ. Please keep on keeping on. Love to you, Ferree

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    1. Thank you, Ferree, for your kind comments. I hope you are doing well.

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  2. Dear Sharon, You have such worthwhile things to say, please keep on writing and sharing. Yes, we will never forget, but that doesn't mean we wallow in grief nor does it mean we never love again. Sorrow and joy learn to co-habit within us, just as they did in Christ. Please keep on keeping on. Love to you, Ferree

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