Grief.  Ever one has or will experience it.  

Grief.  It's as individual as the love you have the person who has died.  

So, while everyone has experienced grief and grief is individual and unique to the person suffering it, I personally believe that no one can be an expert on grief.  Everything you think you know about grief will change with the intensity of the emotion you experience at the graveside of someone you love -- and the more you love that person, the greater the abyss of loss and the more intense the grief.

That also means there is no right or wrong way to walk the journey of grief and no time limit on when it's to be over.  We experience it differently, we respond to it differently, we struggle through it differently.  But there is some common ground that we all share on this journey and even though you feel at times that you are totally alone in the universe, you aren't.   

I don't claim to be any kind of expert on this.  There are highly educated psychiatrists, philosophers, and sociologists that have plenty to say about the emotional, chemical, and physiological elements of grief.  I only know what I have experienced and my desire here is only to share with you some of the resources that have been a help and to share what the Lord Jesus has given me in my dark valley of grief and despair.  Grief truly is a journey and it is my prayer that something I've experienced in my personal grief will help you as you travel this way.   

               Shared in love,

                                Cris