Living Through The Loss


Life is Eternal

I am standing upon the seashore.
A ship at my side spreads her white sails
to the morning breeze and starts
for the blue ocean.
She is an object of beauty and strength,
and I stand and watch her until at length,
she hangs like a speck of white cloud,
just where the sea and the sky come down
to mingle with each other.
Then someone at my side says,
"There! She's gone!"
Gone where? Gone from my sight-that is all.
She is just as large in mast and hull and spar
as she was when she left my side, and
just as able to bear her load of living freight
to the place of destination.
Her diminished size is in me, not in her;
and just at the moment when someone
at my side says, "There! She's gone!,"
there are other voices ready to take up
the glad shout, "There! She comes!"
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2nd March 2010

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I apologize for being gone so long….but

well, there’s really no good excuse!!  I am finding that my time is taken up lately with many new and different, and yes, worth while projects, but this blog is certainly one too.  And in keeping with that (among other things) I am taking a course this Friday and Saturday which will enable me to be a certified bereavment facilitator.  It is a comprehensive training program that will provide insight, knowledge, and hands-on classroom experience which will help me to develop the skills necessary to interact with the breaved and help facilitate their grief.  A friend of mine who has already taken the course says that I should be prepared to have old issues resurface!!!  I had to laugh to myself as I thought, why should that day be any different.  I certainly still have those days I refer to as my M&M days (the ones where the coating that surrounds and protects me is as thin as that of an M&M and as easily shattered).  But regardless, I am looking forward to the training and I promise to post how it goes.

I am also really enjoying (but feeling loaded down with homework, for the first time in oh…..um…a few years, let’s say) my class in Theology which I am taking through my church.  It is called Education for Ministry (sounds much more “Bible Study” like than it is).  This is an Episcopal seminary program which takes four years to complete and is similar, material wise, to an actual seminary education, except you aren’t a priest at the end.  What am I going to do with that, you are probably saying to yourself, right along with me, because at this point, I haven’t a clue.  I just know that it is something I have wanted to do for years (since my Aunt did it way back in the 80’s) as well as something I feel led to do. It will take me where it takes me…..God will know even though I don’t. 

I am also busy brushing up on my speaking skills since joining a Toastmasters Club last September.  Even though I used to teach speech and theater, this has become a useful and enjoyable tool for my personal growth and “re-invention.” I highly recommend it to all.  I hope to improve upon my Travel and Cruise Line Safety and Security presentation by way of my Toastmasters speeches.  I did win best speaker the night I did my first speech on Cruise safety, so that’s a good start.  I plan to recreate the speech (hopefully with improvments) and post it on YouTube. I will let you know when that happens so you can alert anyone you know that is interested in cruise safety.

So….yes, life is busy but …this too is a committment and one I am passionate about, so I promise to do a better job of things here.  Until the next time…….Big Hugs, Jamie

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