Just for Today--

Just For Today
Just for today, I will try to live thru the next 24 hrs, and not expect to get over my child's death, but instead learn to live with it one day at a time.

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

Just for today, I will forgive all my family and friends who didn't help or comfort me in the way I needed them to. They truly didn't know how.

Just for today, I will smile no matter how much I hurt on the inside, for maybe if I smile a little, 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 self-inflicted burden of guilt, for deep in my heart I do know, if there was anything in this world 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, when my heart feels like breaking, I will stop and remember that grief is the price we have to pay for loving and the only reason that I hurt is because I have had the privilege of loving someone so very much.

Just for today, I will not compare myself to others. I am very fortunate to be who I am and to have had my child for as long as I did.

Just for today, I will allow myself to be happy, for I know that I am not deserting him by living on. ****************

found on Brian DeAngelis Virtual Memorial, I thank his Mother for sharing her pain and her strength