From Broken to Beautiful
From Broken to Beautiful: Our First Easter as One Family First's for a grieving person are extremely difficult. A widow or a widower struggles with a first meal in public alone, a first church service without them, first major holidays, first birthdays, first mornings in an empty bed, first wedding anniversary without them, and a mine field of other firsts that no one can expect or foresee. Tiff passed away on November 25, which meant that I had a lot of really heavy firsts to emotionally stare down. I had Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, Christmas program at my kid's school, first urgent care appointment without her, all three kid's birthdays are in the winter, etc. Those first few months were littered with moments on my calendar that were supposed to be triumphs, not tragedies, moments to celebrate, not cry. First's are hard, but not all first's are bad. I look back in time and I remem...