Widowed Persons Service
 
 
 

Widowed Persons Service

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What is Widowed Persons Service?

We are a grief support group specifically designed to help the widow/widower.  Meetings are held monthly, with a speaker or in a discussion group format.  We have monthly social activities, offer 8 week grief discussion groups and have outreach volunteers available for one on one visits. 

Let others who have walked a similar journey be there to help you, as you work your way through grief to healing.

Bereavement and Beyond

Thousands face losing a loved one each year.  Since most of us have never been through this painful experience before, we are unprepared for the hurting and the healing process that lies ahead of us.

Every situation we face in our lives, is better dealt with when we have knowledge and understanding about the journey.  Join us as we learn more about the emotional, mental, and physical reactions to trauma and loss, we share coping methods and healing guidelines to get through (not over) the grief in our lives.

Grief Support

Grief deepens you.  It allows you to explore the perimeters of your soul.  Grief is the only gateway to certain levels of consciousness, and it is a hard task-master.  Through grief you can explore every aspect of your dark side - anger, pain, abandonment, terror, loneliness, and these are aspects of the sacred wound that in our daily lives we usually try to ignore. 

Grief forces you to look at those parts of yourself that are not yet healed.  If you can look at grief as a teaching, you will grow.  The pain of grief is not the only teacher in this life, but if looked at properly, with awareness and an open heart, it is one of the greatest teachers of all. 

The seeds of wisdom and enlightenment are planted within the wounds of grief.  What is lost can only come back to us again in higher ways.

“WHEN TOMORROW STARTS WITHOUT ME”

When tomorrow starts without me,

And I’m not there to see,

If the sun should rise and find your eyes

All filled with tears for me;

 

I wish so much you wouldn’t cry

They way you did today,

While thinking of the many things,

We didn’t get to say.

I know how much you love me,

I know you’ll miss me too;

But when tomorrow starts without me,

Please try to understand,

That an angel came and called my name,

And took me by the hand,

And said my place was ready,

In heaven far above

And that I’d have to leave behind

All those I dearly love.

But as I turned to walk away,

A tear fell from my eye

For all my life, I’d always thought,

I didn’t want to die.

I had so much to live for,

So much left yet to do,

It seemed almost impossible,

That I was leaving you.

 

I thought of all the yesterdays,

The good one and the bad,

The thought of all the love we shared,

And all the fun we had.

If I could relive yesterday

Just even for a while,

I’d say good-bye and kiss you

And maybe see you smile.

But then I fully realized

That this could never be,

For emptiness and memories,

Would take the place of me.

And when I thought of worldly things

I might miss come tomorrow,

I thought of you, and when I did

My heart was filled with sorrow.

But when I walked through heaven’s gates

I felt so much at home

When God looked down and smiled at me,

From His great golden throne,

He said, “This is eternity,

And all I’ve promised you.

Today your life on earth is past

But here it starts anew.

I promise no tomorrow,

But today will always last,

And since each day’s the same way,

There’s no longing for the past.

You have been so faithful,

So trusting and so true.

Though there were times

You did some things

You knew you shouldn’t do.

But you have been forgiven

And now at last you’re free.

So won’t you come and take my hand

And share my life with me?

 

So when tomorrow starts without me,

Don’t think we’re far apart,

For every time you think of me,

I’m right here, in your heart.