It’s Happening!!

“I once read that if a person has a part of their liver removed, it will grow back..regenerate itself. I also know from personal experience that after a person loses their spouse, a portion of their heart gets buried in the urn with them. But much like the liver, the widow(er)'s heart can also grow back....regenerate itself. It doesn't do it overnight....and it is often a painful regeneration growing process. But given time, the heart WILL mend itself. I met a widower who lost his cherished wife a few years ago. A portion of his heart had also been buried in that urn with hers much like mine had been with Chuck's. We shared the mutual experience of care-giving, watching someone you love fade and then the eventual death of a spouse. It's a road no one can speak of or understand unless they've walked it. And in our conversations on death, we discovered something interesting: Our Spouses Died On The Same Day....4 Hours Apart. Enter a quiet "Pause" in the conversation. We became friends, talking regularly, sharing our hearts that were still in the regeneration process of healing. We discovered that God was the most important thing in each of our lives.....and He had put both of us on the road to healing at the exact same moment. And we discovered we were put on this road next to each other for a reason. Our time together helped our hearts heal and grow once again. It was an interesting journey we were on....how our paths crossed....how our two hearts were now regenerating together....and how the parts of our hearts still in the urns with our spouses, were still beating as strong for them as ever. We knew that would never die. But the one thing we both knew was that God smiled down on two lonely people, gave them a wink, and walked next to us as we journeyed down this beautiful road of unknowns. We met in the middle of our stories....when our souls were worn... but wise.