Missing Your Loved Ones

Sparky100

When I think of my loved ones who are passed especially those who were very close I get very emotional especially at family events or other everyday things where they are missed. For me I think of this person everyday, my thoughts at night and my thoughts in the morning. To overcome my grief I feel I threw myself back into my work and kept busy during the day. I think it has helped me. I am finding it very hard to return to prayer though and often doubt things as I feel my family has been through so much with bereavement that guess I feel so hard done by and that it has been unfair to us.

I do talk to my loved ones passed but not sure if I just do that or believe that they can hear me or are out there somewhere.....

What are you thoughts on your loved ones passed. Do you talk to them? Do you feel their presense anytime? Where do you think they are?

gigino

Sparky100 wrote: »

Do you talk to them?

sometimes

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Do you feel their presense anytime?

sometimes

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Where do you think they are?

Heaven.
I think they can see us / know what we are at. However I sometimes wonder what they look like. Say for example someone gets very very old, and very very ill before they pass away. If they are physically recognisible in heaven , would they look like they did when they were a few years younger / healthier ?

Best wishes and I hope and pray your grief gets a bit easier to bear.

gimmebroadband

So sorry for your loss. I'm still grieving for my dad who died last year, the first 12 months have been really hard, and I miss him so much - I cry every day! I know that I will see him again someday in God's Heavenly Kingdom, it's what keeps me going!

Asry

Hi Sparky I do talk to my loved ones sometimes. My granddad died 4 years ago, and we were very close. I was completely devastated at his passing, and it didn't really kind of settle with me till well over a year later. It was awful. It's hard when I think of things I'd like to show him or tell him, or see something in a shop he'd like as a present.

But I do think he's somewhere good. I hope so. I hope he's at peace because he certainly did enough b**** and moaning in this life! But I find it helps to think that the dead are with God now, and they're safe.

Onesimus

Sparky100 wrote: »

When I think of my loved ones who are passed especially those who were very close I get very emotional especially at family events or other everyday things where they are missed. For me I think of this person everyday, my thoughts at night and my thoughts in the morning. To overcome my grief I feel I threw myself back into my work and kept busy during the day. I think it has helped me. I am finding it very hard to return to prayer though and often doubt things as I feel my family has been through so much with bereavement that guess I feel so hard done by and that it has been unfair to us.

I do talk to my loved ones passed but not sure if I just do that or believe that they can hear me or are out there somewhere.....

What are you thoughts on your loved ones passed. Do you talk to them? Do you feel their presense anytime? Where do you think they are?

I know what it feels like. It's like someone has just been taken compleltely out of the photograph and your like ''oh...I'll never see them again'':(

Ultimately we dont know where they are but must entrust them to the Divine mercy of Christ. Talking to them is great, but if I could find my dying words to my relatives they would be this: ''Don't be thinkin just because I prayed the rosary every now and again and went to mass as often as possible that I'm in heaven and that I dont need your prayers, just dont talk to me, pray for my soul for I am unworthy of the kingdom of Heaven and deserve all the purgatory I get.''

Hope this helps. It helps also when you think: ''I havnt ''lost them'' but they have passed away from this life and I'll keep on praying for them and entrusting them to God's Mercy.''

Onesimus

gimmebroadband

I have prayed for my dad unceasingly (as well as for all the poor souls in Purgatory), assuming that only great Saints enter Heaven immediately and that most of us will have to go through Purgatory! They in turn will help return the favour!