Just for Today...

• Just for today, I will try to make it through the next 24 hours and not expect to get over my child’s death, but instead try to live with it - one day at a time.
  


• Just for today, I will remember my child's life - not her death, and I will bask in the comfort of those treasured days and moments we shared.


• Just for today, I will forgive all the family and friends who didn't help, or comfort me the way I needed them to - for they truly did not know how.


• Just for today, I will smile no matter how much I hurt on the inside, so maybe my heart will soften, and I will begin to heal.


• Just for today, I will reach out to comfort a relative or friend of my child, for they are hurting too, and perhaps we can comfort each other.


• Just for today, I will free myself from my burden of guilt - for deep in my heart I know that if there was anything in this world I could have done to save my child from death, I would have done it.


• Just for today, I will honor my child's memory by doing something for another child, because I know that would have made my own child proud.


• Just for today, I will offer my hand in friendship to another bereaved parent, for I do know how they feel.
  
  
• Just for today, I will not compare myself with others. I am fortunate to be who I am, and to have had my child for as long as I did.

• Just for today, I will try to be happy - for I know that I am not deserting my child, by continuing to live.
  


• Just for today, when my heart feels like breaking, I will stop and remember Grief is the price we pay for loving - and the only reason I hurt, is because I have had the privilege of loving so much.
  

• Just for today, I will try to accept that I did not die when my child did. My life goes on, and I am the only one who can make that life worthwhile once more...