I can’t believe it’s been almost a year since I’ve posted on this blog. In my own personal growth I have successfully grieved several significant losses. For the last year I have successfully grieved the loss of my brother.

In all my years of counseling others through grief, and grieving myself, I’ve never felt as much pain and anguish as during this grief of his death. We experienced 65 years together and the last 20 brought us real close spiritually and emotionally. I like to say, “We connected at the heart and not just the brain!” Frankly this pain of his loss hit me by suprise. I mean I knew I would miss him severly, but I experienced much more depression than I expected.

I feel I have reached the “acceptance” stage of my grief. I know I will have periods of hurt as I remember him, but the pain is far less than in the beginning of my grief and I have risen far above my depression. I thank God for my experience with him in life and I now thank God much more for this grief experience. I have new hope, new vision and new energy!