Saturday, October 6, 2012

Day 6: What Not to Say

Day 6. What Not To Say Have you had something terrible said to you in the wake of your loss, write it on a piece of paper – photograph it – vent it.

I wrote a post awhile back about what not to say, which is here. But the challenge for this photo was to write it out to take a picture.

4 comments:

  1. I can't believe that people told you these things. How horrible! I have not experienced loss so I can only imagine how awful it must be to hear these things. I do agree with you however on the "It's all part of God's plan" type comments. I remember being told this when mine were in the NICU or "God has a plan" etc. I really wanted to tell these people - "No this is not God's plan. His plan was for mothers to carry their babies in their womb for 40 weeks. It's a marvelous plan. They come out breathing and ready to eat. This is not his plan!"

    I think this project on capturing your grief is beautiful. I can only imagine that you sharing your story and grief so openly is helping other moms who have experienced a loss. My prayers are with you.

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  2. Those are all awful, but I absolutely cannot imagine anyone ever saying the last one. What on earth?

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  3. awful....i am thankful for the grace God gives us to not hurt these people......honestly they mean well, they just have NO idea. So sorry you had to process through these hurtful comments......

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  4. I was told by a family friend "It'll be ok, you already have a beautiful daughter and you can always make another."

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