There’s a trick to the 'graceful exit.' It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, or a relationship is over — and let it go. It means leaving what’s over without denying its validity or its past importance to our lives. It involves a sense of future, a belief that every exit line is an entry, that we are moving up, rather than out.
Ellen GoodmanTime doesn't heal all wounds, only distance can lessen the sting of them.
Shannon L. AlderTags: wounds time hurt forgiveness waiting healing resentment timing wondering battles closure fights not-letting-go ignored lack-of-communication living-with-pain not-forgetting not-knowing unresolved-issues
I wanted to end it now, like a bad TV show turned off in the middle.
Tawni O'DellI turned to face Audrey, and everything I loved was right there in her eyes, the memories tangible: the schooldays and sleepovers, the cheap bottles of wine and sappy chick flicks. She was there for my mother’s drunken relapses, there to hold me until I fell asleep the first time the ex from Seattle hit me. It was all there, and my God, each memory was suddenly sacred and the sun rose and set upon it.
Rachael WadeTags: friendship acceptance grief memories loyalty closure resistance-trilogy
Arrogance is someone claiming to have come to Christ, but they won't spend more than five minutes listening to your journey because they are more concerned about their own well being, rather than being a true disciple of Christ. Blessed is the person that takes the time to heal and hear another person so they can move on.
Shannon L. AlderTags: fear honesty kindness love compassion empathy communication judgement arrogance listen anxiety christians caring hypocrites closure mercy-thompson lost-souls not-listening needing-closure true-followers-of-christ
The moonlight rained down on the beach as if to shine a spotlight on my solitude, and I wanted to cry out at it, ‘Why did you take her? You, surrounded by all of your twinkling stars and infinite wonders and darkness. There’s already enough beauty where you are.
Rachael WadeTags: acceptance loss death denial grief closure
Forgiveness wasn’t ever easy, but a feat much more manageable when you weren’t the subject of its grace. Maybe I’d always be a broken recipient of grace. And in that musing, I found rest.
Rachael WadeTags: acceptance peace grace forgiveness closure
Peace is the way, not the destination.
Shannon L. AlderTags: experience freedom peace journey moving-on destination closure here-and-now ending-pain
Nothing changes until people decide to do the things they must, in order to bring about peace.
Shannon L. AlderTags: empathy peace communication understanding listening letting-go forgiving apologizing closure reaching-out see taking ending-it offering-hope
Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief.
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