{"id":123,"date":"2013-07-26T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/f8fa5ff2-4390-4fd0-a054-5b88ee4aa8e5"},"modified":"2013-07-26T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T05:00:00","slug":"summer-re-run-on-the-usefulness-of-grief-gifts-from-the-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"Summer Re-Run: On the Usefulness of Grief–Gifts from the Child"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Wonder Child Blog Readers,<\/font><\/p>\n


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This post on grieving was first published 2 years ago.  Each idea about grief is couched in a quote from the Wonder Child.  May this post bring anyone peace and comfort as they move through, and with, grief. <\/font><\/div>\n

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Blessings,<\/font><\/div>\n

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Joseph<\/font><\/div>\n


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Everyday
\n my child gives me
\nbrief snapshots of things
\nhe would like me to share. 
\nThis week, as a significant chapter of my life
\ndrew to a close,
\nmy child gave me several gifts
\nto help me move through,
\n and with, my tears.
\nHere are some of them.<\/p>\n

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“Tears,” said the child, wiping one from the tortoise’s eye, “cleanse the heart and water the soul. You are so open when you weep.”<\/font><\/p>\n

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“Is there a way out?” wept the wounded man to the child. “Yes, dear one, it’s through your wounds and it’s through me.”<\/p>\n

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“The sadness is back,” said the old man to the child, “what should I do?” “Embrace it,” said the child tenderly, “and then keep moving.”<\/font><\/p>\n

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“Do not mislead them,” said the child to the angels, “there is sorrow just as there is rain. There is anger just as there are storms.”<\/font><\/p>\n

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“There are tears,” said the child holding the old man weeping. “Let them come. They are healing you, me, the other children, the world.”<\/p>\n

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“Why fight your tears?” asked the child as the old man wept, “tears are to grief as laughter is to joy. And both are just as necessary.”<\/font><\/p>\n

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“I know you want to take away their suffering,” the child said the man, “but if you did, you would take away their reason to change.”<\/font><\/p>\n

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“So comfort them in their suffering,” said the child, “help them bear it, but let them let it go.  You cannot take it away, it isn’t yours.”<\/font><\/p>\n

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The child came to my bedside in his ship of full of light and said, “It is OK-cry.  This water I sail on is from the tears of the blessed.”<\/font><\/p>\n

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\u201cCome,\u201d said the child to young man weeping, \u201clook at what your tears have grown!\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n

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\u201cShh,\u201d whispered the child to the angels, \u201clisten to the old man weeping, \u201chis grief is the moving the stars to shine.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Copyright Joseph Anthony of the Wonder Child Blog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Wonder Child Blog Readers, This post on grieving was first published 2 years ago.  Each idea about grief is couched in a quote from the Wonder Child.  May this post bring anyone peace and comfort as they move through, and with, grief.  Blessings, Joseph Everyday  my child gives me brief snapshots of things he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}