Acceptance is often confused with the notion of being alright or okay with what has happened. This is not the case. - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

I realized I had a big stone wall around my heart. It was designed to protect me from hurt, but it also kept the love out.

The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.

To me, the average person praying is begging for something. Always had too much pride to actually beg.