A New Season

The trees here in Michigan are beginning to change colors and leaves are falling.  On my walk today I picked up these leaves:

Collin, my last child, is off to college.  I made it through last year with all the “firsts” of Neal’s death.  Now I’m all alone in this big empty house.  I find myself in a double new season of life:  a widow and empty nester.  What now?  I am trying my hand at cake decorating at JoAnn Fabrics and have joined a hospice grief group.  It’s time to find some way to serve.  I have no idea what I want to do so keep watching to see what God unveils!

Like these leaves we all go through changes in life.  Each one is a different shape, different color and goes through changes at different stages.  One thing I have learned with grief is that it is messy.  You go in and out of stages never getting over it but getting through it.  Each day is a little easier.

On the journey,
Trish

“Trust in him at all times, you people, pour out your hearts to him…”  Psalm 62:8

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