Tag Archives: Grief & Healing

Frank, honest, sometimes painful look at grief and hope of healing.

Now, What are We going to Do?

June 24, 2022Meditations, We Have Work To DoGrief & Healing, Spirituality:Finding MineTheresa Wyatt Prebilsky

Now, let’s ask ourselves the question: how can we fund and provide support for the babies and families where fathers deny/leave without responsibility?

How can we fund and support young mothers and their child who experience delivering a special needs baby, or, generational poverty or are not resourced by family or personal means? How are we to encourage adoption of infants and older American children in need of homes? How can we fund and up our support for mental and educational help for those who are raped by strangers or worse family or friends? (I know this happens…it happened to me at knife-point when I was 27 and a complete stranger broke into my house in the middle of the night. It was the knife or rape. I chose rape.)

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Longing For Home

May 12, 2017MeditationsAcceptance:Surrender, Grief & Healing, Meditations, Soul, Spirituality:Finding MineTheresa Wyatt Prebilsky

Suffering creates space enough for us
to know that we are alone
and in need of the omnipotent
and perfect love of our Maker.

It is not so large a price to pay
to see and step again
into and through
the small doorway of God’s peace.

It is the work we can only do from here
as our little selves;
mistaken mortals longing for Home.

Today

January 16, 2015MeditationsGrief & Healing, Meditations, Sister LoveTheresa Wyatt Prebilsky

By God’s grace and a bunch of really good people right here, I am standing in the sunshine of gratitude. And today can be about celebrating Trudy and the many gifts she shared with us.

Including one of her butterflies that’ll I’ll share with you. And a poem shared with me by a friend earlier this week.

Live life, love and have fun. I am pretty sure this is what Trudy would like for me to do. With love. Today. Continue reading Today →

Rain On My Parade

January 15, 2015MeditationsAcceptance:Surrender, Grief & Healing, Meditations, Spirituality:Finding MineTheresa Wyatt Prebilsky

Yesterday was not a particularly good day. I wallowed and ate and watched tv and sulked and called out to God a few times but it was like yelling into the grand canyon… all I could hear was me – me – me. Well, that plus this incessant screaming in my head! Continue reading Rain On My Parade →

Another “t” from Trudy

November 19, 2014MeditationsGrief & Healing, Meditations, Sister LoveTheresa Wyatt Prebilsky

I hope it never stops… this coming across little scraps of paper that reveal yet another “t” from Trudy. Or doodle, or person’s name written over and over as if she was praying and waiting to know how she might help someone in building their esteem or dreams. Continue reading Another “t” from Trudy →

Hauntings and Healings

October 31, 2014MeditationsGrief & Healing, Sister LoveTheresa Wyatt Prebilsky

I suppose I’ll go ahead and write about the fire that is in front of me; standing so close that my clothes nearly ignite. They are the only protection I have – hope bricked by these flimsy, combustible threads.

Yes, again, I am facing grief. Continue reading Hauntings and Healings →

“I didn’t need a thing.”

January 10, 2014MeditationsGrief & Healing, Sister LoveTheresa Wyatt Prebilsky

I hesitate to write about this being the second anniversary of being with my sister as she prepared to leave. I hesitate to stir the waters; what emotions might come to the surface could drown me again. But I can not resist sharing a few sweet memories of Trudy – one being a phrase my husband recently recalled as one of Trudy’s signature messages on our machine.

“I didn’t need a thing”, she’d say with her soft, lilting and smiling voice. It was one of her ways of just checking in; sending over a little kite of love.

I miss Sis. But then, who wouldn’t, and doesn’t? Only those folks who didn’t get to meet her at least once.