#memories

Mary Jensen

Dec 25, 20183 min read

A Different Kind of Christmas

It’s Christmas day. Our home is decorated inside and out with ornaments and holiday trinkets. Garland carefully draped along the...

Mary Jensen

Nov 11, 20182 min read

A Faithless Grief

We all experience grief in our own way. I suppose some people can process grief more easily than others. I am not one of those people. ...

Mary Jensen

Oct 7, 20182 min read

My Heart is a Firestorm Fueled by Grief

The palms of my hands hurt. Yet the scorching pain in my heart is relentless. I feel as if I am losing my mind. The hardest times for...

Mary Jensen

Sep 23, 20181 min read

Stop telling me its going to be okay

Erik, I'm struggling so bad.. How the hell do I accept this? How do I continue to live without feeling guilty you're not? My best...

Mary Jensen

Sep 11, 20182 min read

I need help getting through this

I think my husband is worried about me, seriously worried. Sunday night I was watching a show on TV. It was the last episode, the...

Mary Jensen

Sep 7, 20181 min read

A Mother's Worst Fear

Erik was only twenty, a life just begun. He loved his family, his friends, and having fun. He was not perfect, but none of us are. He...

Mary Jensen

Sep 6, 20182 min read

I am not alone in my grief

These last few days have been very difficult. I don’t know why but I have been extremely emotional this week. Grief has a funny way of...

Mary Jensen

Jul 8, 20182 min read

Airplanes and Ice Cream

When my son was young we used to go to the airport to watch the planes take off and land. He must have been about four years old. There...

My Marvelous Journey