A New Year… What Now?

What lies just beyond the bend.? A fellow traveler? A flower stand? Another chance?

A journey of grief is never a straight and narrow road. There are twists and turns and unexpected encounters and it’s unlike anything else for each and every person. No two roads are the same unless we choose to keep walking down the same one over and over again and we aren’t paying attention to what is different now.

What new roads could grief have you traveling on in 2025? What or who might you meet were you to walk towards sorrow rather than skipping away from it? How will you ‘be with’ the woes of the world while tending to your own wounds?

I ask these questions of myself and the answers don’t come quickly or easily, but the following quote provides some comfort amidst all the uncertainty of choosing to walk new roads in the new year -

“I don’t know where I’m going, but I know how to get there.”~ Boyd Vardy,

I believe we know how to get in touch with our grief, we just don’t know where our grief will take us. I know from my own grief experiences, walking the road with others has not only helped me learn to be with what has felt unbearable at times, but it has also led me to the road I’m walking on now which is one of care and companionship so no one grieves alone.

What now might be in the New Year that’s just beyond what you can’t see yet?