Waves

  Some days are ok. And then the darkness of the night feels overwhelming. The sadness, the anxiety can feel so suffocating. It feels so long. It’s like a wave came up out of nowhere and totally blindsided me, and I feel like I’m rolling around in a wave, trying to get my footing again. Trying to come up for air.  A few weeks ago, we had the joy of meeting a beautiful family. They were instant family. You see they have a daughter, Gianna, who is in Heaven too. And they started an organization in her memory: Gia’s Hope. Peter and I’s daughter went to Heaven near the end of last year. Her name: Gianna Hope. None of us knew each other or even of each other until recently. It was totally a God thing. And that was just the beginning of a beautiful connection.  We had SO MANY heart to hearts in the week they came to serve with us. The whole family just spoke so many words of wisdom from their walk with grief. They weren’t scared to come alongside us and sit with us in the pain,...