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"Sorrow and grief should never be valued or devalued based on the loss of human or animal. For "who" or "what" is not the measuring stick for the pain felt, but rather the depth of love and love alone is that which defines the true loss." ~ maryann (michaela) johnson
This is a Pet Loss Bereavement page for those in mourning over the loss of their beloved pet.
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"Few of us are prepared to face the excruciating pain associated with the death of a beloved pet. We think we cannot bear it, that to feel such sorrow is abnormal, as if we're going mad. We think there's something wrong with us, or something unnatural about our feelings. Yet pain over the loss of an animal friend is as natural as the pain we'd feel over the loss of any significant relationship. Our pets offer us a kind of loyalty, devotion and unconditional love that cannot be found in the more complicated relationships we have with relatives, friends and neighbors. Is it any wonder that we feel so devastated when all of that is gone?" ~ marty tousley
Grief is a journey on a road you didn't ask to be on...going to a place you never wanted to go.
The good news is you are not alone...The Lord is your companion and guide.
When you grow too weary He will carry you.
He will make sure that nothing overtakes you as you walk through the dark valley
and He will be with you as you emerge into the light of a new normal
and He will continue to lead and guide you on a new path He has created for you, that will restore your soul.
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An excerpt
from Companion Through The Darkness...
What is there to say about grief?
Grief is a tidal way that overtakes you, smashes down upon you with unimaginable
force, sweeps you up into its darkness, where you tumble and crash against
unidentifiable surfaces, only to be thrown out on an unknown beach, bruised,
reshaped.
Grief means not being able to read more than two sentences at a time....
It is walking into rooms with intention that suddenly vanishes.
Grief is three-o'clock-in-the-morning sweats that won't stop. It is dreadful
Sundays, and Mondays that are no better. It makes you look for a face in a
crowd, knowing full-well the face we want cannot be found in that crown.
Grief is utter aloneness that razes the rational mind and makes room for the
phantasmagoric. It makes you get up and leave in the middle of a meeting,
without saying a word.
Grief makes what others think of you moot. It shears away the masks of normal
life and forces brutal honesty out of your mouth before propriety can stop you.
It shoves away friends, scares away so-called friends, and rewrites your address
book for you.
Grief makes you laugh at people who cry over spilled milk, right to their faces.
It tells the world that you are untouchable at the very moment when touch is the
only contact that might reach you. It makes lepers out of up-standing citizens.
Grief discriminates against no one. It kills. Maims. And cripples. It is the
ashes from which the phoenix rises, and the mettle of rebirth. It returns life
to the living dead. It teaches that there is nothing absolutely true or untrue.
It assures the living that we know nothing for certain. It humbles. It shrouds.
It blackens. It enlightens.
Grief will make a new person out of you, if it doesn't kill you in the making.
~©Stephanie Ericsson 1992/HarperCollins
Special Thanks to: Stephanie Ericsson
I started this web page years ago after my beloved dog Wolf had died and then suddenly stopped. I found an email contact for Stephanie Ericsson (the author of the above quote and book below. ) I wrote and told her what a blessing her book was and about the web site I had been longing to make concerning Pet Loss Grief and she encouraged me to finish it. Well, a few years later here it is, not finished but on it's way. Thank you Stephanie!Stephanie Ericsson, author of 'Companion Through The Darkness, Inner Dialogues on Grief' This is by far the best book on grief I have had the pleasure of reading. I had read other books and tossed them. I thought they were all patronizing and did not have a clue about how to express TRUE sorrow and grief, then I found "Companion Through the darkness" She wrote from the deepest darkest dungeon of her grief. What she wrote was real life pain. Stephanie wrote about her grief and the grief process concerning her husband's death in this book but like I stated at the top of this page, grief is grief whether it is human or pet, it's about the deep love you had for your loved one.
This page is dedicated to my three beloved Alaskan Malamutes Sandi, Timber and Wolf
I am in the planning process of writing a journal type of book for those in the grieving process who like to write out their feelings on their journey.
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