Daily Archives: October 26, 2014

The CarlyMarie Project – Day 26

                                  Healing Ritual

Healing Ritual - Balloon Release

One of my family’s favorite healing ritual is to release balloons.  We usually release them 3 times a year to remember Clara’s on her birthday, the day she entered Heaven, and the day we honor her life.  The balloon release was our way to help our boys heal some of the wounds on Clara’s first birthday.  We wrote messages and sent them off to Heaven.  It became healing for me too.  Seeing such excitement as the kids wrote their messages, hearts, and smiley faces brings me to tears and yet a smile.  For them to feel the connection with their sister means a lot to them.  It means the world to me.  A little bit of each of us rises with those balloons and greets our little ones waiting in Heaven.  A little gift from earth that brings comfort on some of the toughest days we live.

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The CarlyMarie Project – Day 25

                                       Mother Earth

 

Day 25 Mother Earth  After a loss the outdoors took on a bit different roll.  The first year each season was a reminder that life was moving forward.  They were a silent reminder of the hopes of dreams I wanted to share with Clara but couldn’t.  The summer swimming, the Halloween princess, the holiday celebrations, the spring flowers…the times we didn’t get.   Today the seasons also remind me of things yet to come.  For me spring holds such a good spot in my heart.  As I watch the trees come to life I am reminded of the good that comes each season.  The flowers show the beauty and health.  Finally the fruit is like seeing everything come together.

As the seasons change the fruit is harvested and the tree begins to lose it’s leaves.  The tree begins another cycle.  Eventually the tree must come down and through the trunk there is a reminder of the years of growth, and drought, and storms, and health.  The rings of a tree are a perfect reminder of my own years of changes.  Some of me has growth and some despair.  But no season is the same as the last.  I am forever changed and distinctly marked by each season of my life.  God has touched my life, stood me up, shaped me.  He has made me similar and yet unique from every other tree along the path of grief.

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