When the Rain Ends

by Mary Ellen Taylor

It’s okay to let the walls down sometimes,

Sadness is not totally bad. It means the person you lost mattered.

“Bad times are guaranteed. God

But if you hang in there long enough, the world does turn, and the good times follow.”

time doesn’t matter when it comes to grief.”

memory was a tricky thing. It changed with time, emotions, and experience,

Do not squander time. It is the stuff life is made of.

But that’s what grief did. It was patient, always lurking in the shadows, ready to spoil a happy moment, sour a day, or prompt unexpected tears.

“Do you always live in the moment?” Life was full of seconds, minutes, and hours she’d either barely noticed or had forgotten. Others replayed over and over too many times. This one she wanted to remember. And when she played it back, she wanted to savor it. “Only the good ones.”

“I don’t think we ever really repair this kind of sadness. But you can learn to live with it.”

Just because something was true or honest, that didn’t make it good.

healing isn’t just crying and sadness, but it also requires living life and finding joy.”