THE GREAT DIVIDE: one woman's experience of divorce
It is four years this month since I had to finally acknowledge that my marriage of 32 years was finished.
My reactions swung from disbelief to relief.
My emotions vacillated wildly.
No words could articulate what I was experiencing.
For a long while, I was on auto-pilot:
dealing with issues that had to be resolved immediately;
caring for my family;
leaning heavily on precious friends.
I could not change what was happening in my life.
However, I could control my response.
The initial injury is over. Deep healing has begun and will continue. There is always fine tuning to do. I am slowly coming to love myself and others, with a mind and heart tempered with compassion; refined with prayer; purified with mediation.
The dolls in this series absorbed the angst; the anger; the anguish; the apprehension; the anxiety; the aching; the alone-ness and reflected it back to me when I was able to receive their wisdom and dialogue with it. They have been created over the past four years.
I expressed my feelings about divorce in an article published in the "Marist Messenger", a Catholic monthly. Read the article here Dance Me To The End of Love.
My reactions swung from disbelief to relief.
My emotions vacillated wildly.
No words could articulate what I was experiencing.
For a long while, I was on auto-pilot:
dealing with issues that had to be resolved immediately;
caring for my family;
leaning heavily on precious friends.
I could not change what was happening in my life.
However, I could control my response.
The initial injury is over. Deep healing has begun and will continue. There is always fine tuning to do. I am slowly coming to love myself and others, with a mind and heart tempered with compassion; refined with prayer; purified with mediation.
The dolls in this series absorbed the angst; the anger; the anguish; the apprehension; the anxiety; the aching; the alone-ness and reflected it back to me when I was able to receive their wisdom and dialogue with it. They have been created over the past four years.
I expressed my feelings about divorce in an article published in the "Marist Messenger", a Catholic monthly. Read the article here Dance Me To The End of Love.
