Worldwide Candlelighting Ceremony takes place tonight at 7:00 PM all over the globe. It is thought to be the largest global candlelighting ceremony of its kind and is annualy held on the second Sunday night of December.
The Compassionate Friends organization is a self-help group for parents, siblings and grandparents of those who've lost a child of any age for any reason.
Lisa, Donna and I will be there tonight to honor Shane, Aaron, and Chris, who was (is?) Donna's eldest son. Chris was Jerrod, Aaron's best friend's brother. And of course, Shane and Aaron are mine.
Their main Web page says:
Grief Support After the Death of a Child
The mission of The Compassionate Friends is to assist families toward the positive resolution of grief following the death of a child of any age and to provide information to help others be supportive.
The Compassionate Friends is a national nonprofit, self-help support organization that offers friendship, understanding, and hope to bereaved parents, grandparents and siblings. There is no religious affiliation and there are no membership dues or fees.
The secret of TCF's success is simple: As seasoned grievers reach out to the newly bereaved, energy that has been directed inward begins to flow outward and both are helped to heal. The vision of The Compassionate Friends is that everyone who needs us will find us and everyone who finds us will be helped.
Click here for more info and links. or for more info about the Candlelighting Ceremony, click here .
Love to all,
De'on
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This is a good group.
I was blessed with a joy for this Christmas last night. I attended the candle light for the Compassionate Friend’s in memory of the children that will not be at their physical home for Christmas this year. Different years, some long ago, and some just months, and even two weeks ago. My sister and I have went together for the last two years. Last night was when the joy took place. De’on was asked to read a story or poem just as she did last year. She stood in confidence with a gleam that peeked from her eyes behind the podium.
Last year when I saw her behind the same podium her eyes was as if you were looking through a dark tunnel that light could not shine through. No hope last year. A look of hope this one. I knew Aaron and Shane were beaming and saying,”that is our momma.” De’on, I have never seen you look so beautiful. Dear God thank you that a healing is forming, just as your WORD promises.
Aaron received his strength and loyalness from his mom, De’on. I think that the parents I was among with last night are left behind from their children because they perhaps are the stronger. They have the maturity and the patience to endure a road without a map to follow that only guidance will get you through it. You parents are held high in my thoughts and prayers this Christmas. And De’on; you are, “The wind beneath my wings.”
Lisa
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