Professionals who should avoid growing long nails: nurses, pianists, gardeners…masseuses… Indeed. I finally got in today and had a massage. My lower back has been especially tight lately and I’m still fighting the sciatic pain I’ve been dealing with for the past 15 months. I had a good masseuse today, but she had nails! And there were several times those nails got me. I had to take Advil when I got home. Well, that really wasn’t so much for all the nail nicks. That was more just because she persisted in kneading into my sore spots, of which I have plenty. As I was laying there getting pummeled it occurred to me that this is what needs to happen in the grief process. Rather than arch back and try to avoid the pain, you have to “lean into” it. If you don’t get those painful spots worked out then they just get bigger. And the reason grief is on my mind right now is because this has been a very difficult week for the Pville community. Two moms died within 48 hours of each
Surviving early and unexpected widowhood, single parenting, adoption, special needs parenthood...I cover it all as I muse on the unexpected twists and daily minutia of my life. It's also a place where I can publicly echo the words of the psalmist in Psalm 40:2, "He brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock and established my goings."