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Onions

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One of the best things for spiritual healing is to get outside. Into the sunshine – into the light.
Winter makes this hard to do. But spring is finally offering it’s first teasing tastes of better days ahead.
This weekend brought us temps in the low 50’s and sunshine.
I went out to my garden and planted some [...]

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Faith

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Faith seems to play a big part in dealing with our grief. It even played a part in causing our grief.
Faith in the medical profession was a big factor in Richard’s death. I’m sure the generic seizure medicine caused him to have his last seizure. We believed what they all told us – that generics [...]

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The Grief Roller Coaster

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Life after lossing a child has been a big roller coaster ride.
There have been a lot of deep plunges into the unknown.
And then there have been times the track has leveled out, maybe even climbed a small hill or two.
But the ride continues and the path ahead is uncertain.
Right now the track has smoothed out [...]

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A Nice Call

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Got a call from Dusty Rhodes today.
Dusty is Chapter Leader of The Compassionate Friends of Frankfort, KY and the regional coordinator. Debbie has been to a few meetings there and we both went to the last meeting before Christmas.
Dusty called to just let us know he was thinking about us. This is our first Christmas [...]

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The Story Behind “Precious Child”

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While searching for information about the Worldwide Candle Lighting I stumbled upon the song “Precious Child.” Or maybe I should say I was grabbed by the song. It really had a strong affect on me.
Because this song had such a strong affect on me, I went searching for the artist. “Precious Child was written and [...]

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Christmas Memories

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Of our three children, Richard probably looked most forward to Christmas.
He was four months old on his first Christmas. After we put the tree up we brought Richard into the room and put him on the floor in front of the tree. He lit up just like that tree. He just squealed and laughed. He [...]

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Our First Candle Lighting Ceremony

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Tonight we went to the Compassionate Friends Worldwide Candle Lighting at Frankfort, KY.
This is a memorial service for the parents, family and friends of our lost children. We honor the memory of our child with music, poems, a slide show and a candle lighting service. This event happens in each time zone all over the [...]

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Precious Child by Karen Taylor-Good

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We will be attending the Worldwide Candle Lighting tomorrow.  On the web page about this event there is a video. It features the song Precious Child by Karen Taylor-Good. The song grabbed me. It’s beautiful and amazing. I found a video on YouTube that just has the song – no info about the Candle Lighting.
Warning [...]

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Compassionate Friends

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Grief Support After the Death of a Child
“The Compassionate Friends is about transforming the pain of grief into the elixir of hope. It takes people out of the isolation society imposes on the bereaved and lets them express their grief naturally. With the shedding of tears, healing comes. And the newly bereaved get to see [...]

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Richard’s Fruit Salad

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The holiday season has arrived. And for us that means family gatherings.
My siblings, our children and our dogs meet at “The Farm” – my dad’s place.
The Farm is 153 acres of rolling hills surrounded by creaks. There are ponds for fishing and plenty of woods to explore. The kind of place you can let the [...]

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Thanksgiving – Our First Big Holiday

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It’s Thanksgiving Day here in the USA. Time to give thanks to our maker for all the good things he has given us.
It has also been six months since Richard died.
So you probably think we won’t find anything to be thankful for. After all it’s hard to be thankful for grief, pain and a huge [...]

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Strange Dream

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I haven’t had a dream since Richard died. At least not one I remembered.
Until last night.
In my dream I was checking out Facebook.
And Facebook said, “Richard Mudd commented on…”
A couple of times.
Don’t remember whose Facebook posts he commented on. Not sure I even recognized the names.  Seeing Richard making comments sort of shocked me, you [...]

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Can You Dream Again?

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After Richard’s death Paula Fangman from our church gave us a copy of Healing After Loss – Daily Meditations for Working Through Grief by Martha Whitmore Hickman. Paula found this book helpful after her husband passed away.
It contains some inspiring quotes and a short reading for each day of the year.
The entry for October 23 [...]

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Happiness by the Books

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As grieving parents we tend to notice – even concentrate – on one thing ; our grief.
That’s something we can’t avoid for a long time after our child has passed away. It just keeps jumping up and smacking us in the face.
But at some point we all need to find a way out of that [...]

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The Smile Challenge

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Richard was a Dr. Seuss fan. He had all his children’s books. And he demanded they be protected from visiting small children.
So I thought this image and the up lifting  message it presents would be a good choice for grieving parents.
It’s a tough goal. Sometime we can make it, sometime we can’t get there.
You can [...]

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Our First Halloween at the Cemetery

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Richard was a big fan of Halloween. So we had to do a little decorating around his tombstone.
One tradition at our church has been a Halloween party for the kids. As part of this celebration there was often a haunted house – if there were enough older kids to run it.
When Richard was in Youth [...]

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