A piece explaining the death of a child.

[amyjade]

Another well written piece i'd like to share with you all.

Sand Fleas

written by Susan Larson

posted in The Compassionate Friends newsletter

?The death of a child takes you places you?ve never been before, not only in terms of emotions, but in terms of awareness of all that is. I liken the experience to playing on the shore with your friends and complaining about an occasional bite from a sand flea. It?s painful and annoying, but at least everyone else understands how you feel when you?re bitten.
Then one day, a wave grabs you and pulls you out into the ocean where you are bitten by a shark. You feel pain you never imagined could exist. And you?re alone in unfamiliar territory. When you get back to shore, you try to explain your pain to your friends, but the worst pain they can imagine is being bitten by 1,000 sand fleas. That?s all they know. There is no way to explain it to them.
But it?s not just the pain you can?t explain. While struggling under the water you?re suddenly aware that there is infinitely more to life than what we see on the shore. You see the ocean floor with coral reefs and rock formations, things you had never before imagined. You have tapped into the vastness of creation to a higher degree. And again, there is no way to adequately describe this vastness you see and feel. You have nothing to compare it to.
You have a true sense of a greater dimension, and you know that the loved one you miss is out there. You also know your loved one is not lost, but has only gone before you to a place more beautiful and vast than those on the shore could ever imagine. Yes, you still get annoyed with the sand fleas, but you now realize how trivial they are. And even if your friends don?t understand you, you know there is Someone greater out there who does.?

[fransmom]

that's beautiful

[sha11]

thats so true.