Experiencing grief is beautiful because it means you have loved. Grief is felt in the depths of your heart meaning you have opened up that place for the person you are grieving the loss of. Your open heart has allowed you to live, experiencing joy, pain, and love.

You tell yourself it’s ok,

Smile.

Look inside yourself,

Nothing.

No sadness

No joy

No pain

No love

All those feelings that tell you

You have loved

You are loved.

Think back

No, no lost one,

Not only good memories

Lean in to the good and bad

Experience how they make you feel

Breathe, you have experienced love

Feel the sadness

Feel the joy

Feel the pain

Feel the love

Feeling is living

Not feeling is surviving

Living means your heart is open

Open to experience and feel

Sadness

Joy

Pain and

Love

There is love in all these feelings

How you ask?

Because your heart has been opened,

Opened by love to feel

To experience

Sadness

Joy

Pain

Is Love.

Allowing yourself to live,

Not just survive,

Is the hardest thing to do

Because we want to be satisfied

And nothing more,

Numb

To life

To feeling

To pain

To love

Experience

Embrace

Feel

Because it makes you beautiful

It makes life worth living

It fills your heart with

Hope

Compassion and

Love.

You are worthy of experiencing life

Why?

Because of God’s Grace

His

Unending

Just

Powerful

Redeeming

and

Compassionate

LOVE.

He knows you

He sees you

You are loved.

So go love

Because God always has His heart open

Why?

Because He loves.

I love you Gerardo. Your birthday week was spent feeling and experiencing the love you shared.