JOY.
I’ve been giving a lot of thought to my word for 2016. After the death of our son Dale in 2011 I had serious doubts that I would ever experience true joy again. The grief felt overwhelming and while life goes on, it’s as if it was divided between before Dale died and after. This last year (2015) has proved transformational. Our son Ted remarried and his wife is pregnant with a little boy they have decided to name Mason Dale. When I learned we were about to have another grandchild my heart filled with JOY. Real joy. It seemed the perfect word for 2016.
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Dec 30, 2015 09:31AM
We did the same thing when naming our son. My boyfriends brother Zachary also passed away in 2011. So we named our son Liam Zachary.
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I hope Mason Dale will be a blessing to you and your family. I also hope he'll bring JOY into your life again, Debbie. You have brought joy into the lives of so many people with your lovely books. You deserve to feel JOY again in your own life. May 2016 be a blessed and joyful year for you and your family.
it`s a different level of joy........still not quite the same as before the death.......it`s joy as you know it to be now.......
How truly wonderful! God has a way of bringing Joy into our lives. I am so happy that this new little grandson will bring that into your lives. Happy, joyful, new year to you and your family. God bless!Mary Putnam
The word, joy, sound wonderful. I have a lot of books to read this year, so I'm going to feel a number of things. Have a Happy New Year, Debbie, you and your family.
You write so often of people finding joy or finding it again in their lives. What a blessing to have found it true in your own life.
