WE ARE SORRY about your loss 💛

[SummerOnTheWay1]

THIS GROUP IS OPEN TO ALL GRIEVERS NO MATTER HOW LONG IT HAS BEEN [years,days].

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Grief & Loss Team  🤗

[SummerOnTheWay1]

📎  [2/15/26] Happy Birthday to them!!!

Michelle @MichelleC103656 , you are an INSPIRATION dear friend.

Why?

In spite of YOUR GRIEF, you are still "living" - something I struggle with sometimes.

Luv,

Nicole 🤗🤗🤗 (Grief Forum)

[MichelleC103656]

Thank you, Nicole!  To so many of us on here, you are the inspiration, our inspiration. We know your story, your grief, and you still keep offering help and support to everyone. Hugs and love to you today and every day!🤗 💌

[SummerOnTheWay1]

📎  [2/15/26] Thank you SO MUCH Michelle @MichelleC103656 🤗

[MichelleC103656]

You are very welcome, Nicole!  I am so glad to know you and have you in my life. I hope that you have a good night and a great week!  I look forward to communicating with you again soon! Luv to you and your Mister!🐈😻

[SummerOnTheWay1]

📎  [2/14/26] Stop by when you can to encourage others [respond to THEIR POST] or ASK FOR SOME encouragement.

WE ALL have days/nights when we need this!!!

Luv,

Nicole ‌‌‌‌‌‌🤗‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌🤗‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌🤗‌‌‌‌‌‌ (Grief Forum)

[stevenallen12323]

Trust☆Jesus and let him lead and guide you. He will give you peace that passes all understand. GIVE ... 

[SummerOnTheWay1]

[Tuesday 7/28/26]

Dear Steven @stevenallen12323 , we hope you will stop by AGAIN to see us!!!

Grief & Loss Team ‌🤗‌ 

[SummerOnTheWay1]

1 step at a time!!!

[mc6844]

I'm a little late today to stop by and wish my friends on the forum a nice Valentines Day. It may not be happy. That is ok. Not every day is happy. I find happiness in moments. I find peace in spirituality. Sometimes the practices of our youth can bring comfort and hope. And to remind us we are living in answered prayer. For all the times our prayers have been answered. Also, the night doesn't last but tomorrow is another day. Take care of yourselves.

[SummerOnTheWay1]

1 step at a time!!!

[MichelleC103656]

Hey Nicole!  Just wanted to say Hello! You are so right about everything. I totally agree with our furbabies being sad and upset. My cat ,Bristol, was so lost without my parents and Jim's Mom. We are still grieving and just taking it day by day, week  by week, and month to month. It is so difficult when you weren't expecting someone to pass away and even when you knew that it was going to happen. I just wanted to say Hi and send hugs to you and Mister! 🐈😸😻😺 Take care! Talk to you soon! I am so glad to see that you are still here!🙂💌

[SummerOnTheWay1]

📎  [Friday 2/13/26]

@mc6844 You are in my "thoughts" TODAY!!!

Luv,

Nicole 🤗🤗🤗 (Grief Forum)

[mc6844]

• Thank you Nicole. You are in my thoughts too, and all in the forum. Thank you for your service to the grieving. Heaven sees you, and all on the forum I'm certain!

[SummerOnTheWay1]

1 step at a time!!!

[mc6844]

This is good to consider and perhaps getting interested in something new. Thank you! 

[SummerOnTheWay1]

1 step at a time!!!

[mc6844]

Grief is indeed a process.

[SummerOnTheWay1]

📎   I luv the "support" WE ALL give each other in THIS GROUP!!!

[mc6844]

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@SummerOnTheWay1 wrote:

📸[.gif attached] Keep STEPPING to feel better!!!

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I agree, even on days when we step a bit backwards.

[SummerOnTheWay1]

1 step at a time!!!

[mc6844]

Thank you Winter, for all your wonderful work on the forum. 

[mc6844]

Yes  I know and know of so many widows/widowers. It's so hard to know what will bring comfort. Probably being present in the moment is what I try to do. There are just too many of us  lol.  However, a part of life.

[thespina]

Hello would like to join this 

[SummerOnTheWay1]

[Tuesday 7/28/26]

Dear @thespina , I am "thinking" about YOU!!!

How are you TODAY/TONIGHT?

Luv,

Nicole 🤗🤗🤗 (Grief Forum)

[SummerOnTheWay1]

[6/30/26] Dear @thespina , we hope you will stop by AGAIN to see us!!!

Grief & Loss Team ‌🤗‌ 

[SummerOnTheWay1]

Keep stepping to feel BETTER!!!  👣

[MarkD524822]

Nicole: Could you send me one of those (hug)

I could really use one this morning 

Thanks

[BillD916633]

Good morning Nicole:

I have monitored your comments for quite some time, never considering to join in but enjoying the words of comfort. It’s now entering another year

( 2 years this March ) of enduring a loss after 53 years I did not, and still don’t  think my heart will stop aching every day.

I found this poem awhile back and fell in love with the words. Please forgive  my editing.

Wife, Mother, Grandmother
June 13, 1951 - March 20, 2024
       GOD’S GIFT TO ME

"I'll lend you for a little while
a child of mine," He said.
"For you to love while she lives,
and mourn her when she's dead.

It may be ten or twenty years -
or seventy-two or three.
But will you, till I call her back,
take care of her for me ?

She'll bring her charms to gladden you,
but should her stay be brief,
You'll have her lovely memories
as solace for your grief.

I cannot promise she will stay,
since all from earth return;
But there are lessons taught down there
I want this child to learn.

I've looked the wide world over
in my search for teachers true
And from the throngs that crowd life's loves,
I have chosen you.

Now will you give her all your love,
nor think the labor vain,
Nor hate me when I come to call
to take her back again ?

I fancied that I heard them say,
"Dear Lord, Thy will be done!
For all the joy Thy child shall bring,
the risk of grief we’ll run.

We'll shelter her with tenderness,
we'll love her while we may.
And for the happiness we've known,
forever grateful stay.

But should the angels call for her
much sooner than we've planned,
We'll brave the bitter grief that comes
and try to understand !

This poem was rewritten with a heavy heart
Farewell my love, we shall meet again.

[SereneSeagull]

That was beautiful.

[WebWiseWoman]

Bill, thank you for your endearing post!

My "dad" passed 15-Apr-1983; my SIL and I were both pregnant with those who became his first granddaughter and grandson, 1 day apart that November.

Both had minor birth defects our OB felt were due to the trauma of his loss...

Now, here we are, 40+ years later and I miss him just as much. I experience things through his eyes so many times; I feel his love of people and his anger at injustice... I hope these never leave me.

Thank you, again, for your thoughtful and heart-felt post!