Comments on: Make a Decision to Love: Educate yourself. http://mollypiper.com/2009/10/make-a-decision-to-love-educate-yourself/ Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 15 May 2012 02:33:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kd Blackburn http://mollypiper.com/2009/10/make-a-decision-to-love-educate-yourself/#comment-53630 Kd Blackburn Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:25:52 +0000 http://thepipers.wordpress.com/?p=1244#comment-53630 I had a younger, unmarried, male friend do the same for me after my two year old passed away. It was compassion at its height that he cared enough to have read the book and entered into our grief. He was one of the few who understood more of the pain out of everyone who "tried", that had never lost a child. I always read a book before I give it or loan it, because I like to read. Now I will do so to have compassion. Thank you for the reminder.. I had a younger, unmarried, male friend do the same for me after my two year old passed away. It was compassion at its height that he cared enough to have read the book and entered into our grief. He was one of the few who understood more of the pain out of everyone who “tried”, that had never lost a child.
I always read a book before I give it or loan it, because I like to read. Now I will do so to have compassion. Thank you for the reminder..

]]> By: Reading Material « proverbs thirty:eight http://mollypiper.com/2009/10/make-a-decision-to-love-educate-yourself/#comment-34887 Reading Material « proverbs thirty:eight Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:54:15 +0000 http://thepipers.wordpress.com/?p=1244#comment-34887 [...] been hard to relate to and grieve alongside women who I care deeply about. A friend referred me to this post written by Molly Piper and I decided that it was a great place to start–I needed to educate myself. After some [...] [...] been hard to relate to and grieve alongside women who I care deeply about. A friend referred me to this post written by Molly Piper and I decided that it was a great place to start–I needed to educate myself. After some [...]

]]> By: Hope | the Chaseys http://mollypiper.com/2009/10/make-a-decision-to-love-educate-yourself/#comment-34875 Hope | the Chaseys Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:55:45 +0000 http://thepipers.wordpress.com/?p=1244#comment-34875 [...] been hard to relate to and grieve alongside women who I care deeply about. A friend referred me to this post written by Molly Piper and I decided that it was a great place to start–I needed to educate myself. After some [...] [...] been hard to relate to and grieve alongside women who I care deeply about. A friend referred me to this post written by Molly Piper and I decided that it was a great place to start–I needed to educate myself. After some [...]

]]> By: maggie http://mollypiper.com/2009/10/make-a-decision-to-love-educate-yourself/#comment-9448 maggie Sun, 16 May 2010 04:36:58 +0000 http://thepipers.wordpress.com/?p=1244#comment-9448 i dont know if your story counts but i have been reading from your first post and on. I hurt in ways i never knew i could. I am sick at the pain. In anger but yet calm with a sense of joy. I wrote a poem for my friend who lost her little boy by stillbirth just a month ago now. I have cried behind closed doors. I have not pressured . i have taken your advice to such a level as i live it daily. ask specific questions. I talk about him I tell her i miss him. And I love him so muc that it hurts. I go to the grave when i can and i dustit of while praying and talking and just hurting. I thank you. i dont know if your story counts but i have been reading from your first post and on. I hurt in ways i never knew i could. I am sick at the pain. In anger but yet calm with a sense of joy. I wrote a poem for my friend who lost her little boy by stillbirth just a month ago now. I have cried behind closed doors. I have not pressured . i have taken your advice to such a level as i live it daily. ask specific questions. I talk about him I tell her i miss him. And I love him so muc that it hurts. I go to the grave when i can and i dustit of while praying and talking and just hurting. I thank you.

]]> By: Amy http://mollypiper.com/2009/10/make-a-decision-to-love-educate-yourself/#comment-5721 Amy Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:00:28 +0000 http://thepipers.wordpress.com/?p=1244#comment-5721 I just came across your blog for the first time, and it has already touched me so much! Everything from your Compassion trip, photos, and video to your posts about your sweet baby and about loss in general. I have had 2 traumatic miscarriages - not stillbirths, like you, but still devistating - and they have opened the door for me to grieve with those that grieve. I have been honored to be a part of the lives of several women that have had miscarriages and have had stillborn babies since then in addition to other types of loss. I am anxious to read more of your insights and to pass your blog along to my friends that find themselves in the whilwind of painful loss. God bless you for sharing! I just came across your blog for the first time, and it has already touched me so much! Everything from your Compassion trip, photos, and video to your posts about your sweet baby and about loss in general. I have had 2 traumatic miscarriages – not stillbirths, like you, but still devistating – and they have opened the door for me to grieve with those that grieve. I have been honored to be a part of the lives of several women that have had miscarriages and have had stillborn babies since then in addition to other types of loss. I am anxious to read more of your insights and to pass your blog along to my friends that find themselves in the whilwind of painful loss. God bless you for sharing!

]]> By: Marie Smith http://mollypiper.com/2009/10/make-a-decision-to-love-educate-yourself/#comment-4940 Marie Smith Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:58:23 +0000 http://thepipers.wordpress.com/?p=1244#comment-4940 What a beautiful sentiment of friendship. Thank you for passing along this wonderful idea. What a beautiful sentiment of friendship. Thank you for passing along this wonderful idea.

]]> By: Dear loved ones, (family friends, etc.) « an atypical speakeasy http://mollypiper.com/2009/10/make-a-decision-to-love-educate-yourself/#comment-4939 Dear loved ones, (family friends, etc.) « an atypical speakeasy Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:28:29 +0000 http://thepipers.wordpress.com/?p=1244#comment-4939 [...] http://thepipers.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/make-a-decision-to-love-educate-yourself/ [...] [...] http://thepipers.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/make-a-decision-to-love-educate-yourself/ [...]

]]> By: Alexis http://mollypiper.com/2009/10/make-a-decision-to-love-educate-yourself/#comment-4938 Alexis Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:03:20 +0000 http://thepipers.wordpress.com/?p=1244#comment-4938 Wow. Just wow. As someone who lost a child at 3.5 months old your post brought me chills and tears and a smile. If only we all had friends like yours. Wow. Just wow. As someone who lost a child at 3.5 months old your post brought me chills and tears and a smile. If only we all had friends like yours.

]]> By: dawn http://mollypiper.com/2009/10/make-a-decision-to-love-educate-yourself/#comment-4937 dawn Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:34:30 +0000 http://thepipers.wordpress.com/?p=1244#comment-4937 Molly. What great, great advice. I would have been moved to tears as well. That was someone willing to be affected at a dangerous level by grief. That was love and I'm so glad you recognized it as the gift it is. I will remember this advice in the future for sure. I have a little guy in heaven, and I know how lonely grief can be--partly because people are afraid of facing the pain themselves, and partly cause noone can truly understand unless they've been there. But reading a book...what an act of companionship in the pain. Molly.

What great, great advice. I would have been moved to tears as well. That was someone willing to be affected at a dangerous level by grief. That was love and I’m so glad you recognized it as the gift it is.

I will remember this advice in the future for sure. I have a little guy in heaven, and I know how lonely grief can be–partly because people are afraid of facing the pain themselves, and partly cause noone can truly understand unless they’ve been there. But reading a book…what an act of companionship in the pain.

]]> By: Elizabeth http://mollypiper.com/2009/10/make-a-decision-to-love-educate-yourself/#comment-4936 Elizabeth Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:33:35 +0000 http://thepipers.wordpress.com/?p=1244#comment-4936 What a wonderful and thoughtful gift. I too am a mommy to a stillbirth angel. What a wonderful and thoughtful gift. I too am a mommy to a stillbirth angel.

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