Coming Home To An Empty House

Coming home to an empty home is never fun.  When you are coming home to a house that someone else may never get the chance to come back home to can be devastating.  Facing the thought of looking at where someone used to be, seeing their things still sitting, right where they left them. Everything in it’s place, as if they will be right back, it’s heartbreaking.

Whether you’ve lost a Loved One or they are just gone for an extended period of time, it is still an empty home.  The real problem is that the house is not really empty, it is full of memories.  Some memories remind us of happy times, others of sad times.  The house is still filled with these items.  Items that trigger memories are that are more like spark.  That spark is all that is needed to strike fear in our hearts and heads.

Finding Their Things

What do you do when you come home to find your Loved One’s things sitting right where they left them?   Understand that those items are waiting for life to continue. Also understand that your Loved Ones didn’t leave those items there on purpose.  

-Your Loved Ones did not place those items there to make you feel bad.  Yesterday was just a normal day until something changed.  They were doing their normal activities and they expected to return to them at the end of the day.  That change was not intended to alter or crush your life.

-These items are all part of a series of circumstances and events. These series of events are just one moment in time. We must not let these events define us.  Our Loved Ones did not do this to us or because of us.  We must not let these events control our future events.  

I Understand

I have been here, I have found those items waiting for a Loved One to return.  It’s devastating to find.  You feel lost because half of the world is in turmoil and the other half is frozen in time.  It is not easy, but you can get through it successfully. Take a few moments, put them away as normal.  Tidy up and prepare for tomorrow.

Tomorrow Will Come!