Life is a bag of frozen peas
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spiritdoc1Prayers: 40315Requests: 2397
July 17, 2022 at 6:42 pmA few weeks after my first wife, Georgia, was called to heaven, I was cooking dinner for my son and myself. For a vegetable, I decided on frozen peas. As I was cutting open the bag, it slipped from my hands and crashed to the floor. The peas, like marbles, rolled everywhere. I tried to use a broom, but with each swipe the peas rolled across the kitchen, bounced off the wall on the other side and rolled in another direction. My mental state at the time was fragile. Losing a spouse is an unbearable pain. I got on my hands and knees and pulled them into a pile to dispose of, I was half laughing and half crying as I collected them. I could see the humour in what happened, but it doesn’t take much for a person dealing with grief to break down. For the next week, every time I was in the kitchen, I would find a pea that had escaped my first cleanup. In a corner, behind a table leg, in the frays at the end of a mat, or hidden under a heater, they kept turning up. Eight months later I pulled out the refrigerator to clean, and found a dozen or so petrified peas hidden underneath. At the time I found those few remaining peas, I was in a new relationship with a wonderful woman I met in a widow/widower support group. After we married, I was reminded of those peas under the refrigerator. I realized my life had been like that bag of frozen peas. It had shattered. My wife was gone. I was in a new city with a busy job and a son having trouble adjusting to his new surroundings and the loss of his mother. I was a wreck. I was a bag of spilled, frozen peas. My life had come apart and scattered. When life gets you down; when everything you know comes apart; when you think you can never get through the tough times, remember, it is just a bag of scattered, frozen peas. The peas can be collected and life will move on. You will find all the peas. First the easy peas come together in a pile. You pick them up and start to move on. Later you will find the bigger and harder peas. When you pull it all together, life will be whole again. The life you know can be scattered at any time. You will move on, but how fast you collect your peas depends on you. Will you keep scattering them around with a broom, or will you pick them up one-by-one and put your life back together? Something To Think About🤔 🙏🏻♥️🕊
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July 17, 2022 at 10:01 pm🥰🥰❤️
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July 17, 2022 at 11:29 pm♥️ back at you!
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July 17, 2022 at 11:45 pmSimply Beautiful ❤️🌹
spiritdoc1Prayers: 40315Requests: 2397
July 17, 2022 at 11:46 pmNot as beautiful as you sweet Carol🌹
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July 17, 2022 at 11:57 pm🤗❤️🥰 Love and hugs precious spiritdoc1
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July 18, 2022 at 3:08 am♥️🌹♥️🌹
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July 18, 2022 at 7:26 amLove ❤️ this! Thank you spiritdoc
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July 18, 2022 at 8:43 amThanks, spiritdoc1, for the wonderful analogy! I would have never thought of comparing myself to a bag of peas, but it is so true! 😘❤️🥰
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July 18, 2022 at 9:33 amA friend of mine once told me that when he was young…he hated green peas! So when mother serve peas for dinner, he used to stash them under-the-table where there was like a little shelf like area. Years later when they moved(when the table was shifted) a multitude of petrified peas fell onto the ground!🤣 I laughed about that at the time…and that tale, it’s still funny now. Thank you Spiritdoc for reminding me of that story and making me laugh. I’m glad I know a little bit more about you today!❤
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July 18, 2022 at 10:10 amI find this to be so inspiring and thought provoking. ❤️Thank you my sweet sister Spiritdoc1 for sharing this insightful and beautiful piece. It sure resonate with me in so many ways. May your life be richly blessed to the overflowing! You are valued and appreciated 🥰🙏🌺❤️🙏🙏Gods Chosen One GA✝️❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏✝️
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