11/08/2025
Dear world,
Please be gentle with grieving hearts as the holidays near.
They walk among us, often quietly and unseen.
They wear smiles that seem bright. They laugh in ways that sound real.
They show up for others while silently carrying the weight of someone missing.
Some will set the table with one chair empty this year.
Others will hold a recipe card in their mother’s handwriting and feel the ache of her absence all over again.
There will be real moments of joy—followed by the sharp sting of knowing new memories being made don’t include the one they wish was still here.
It’s the strange beauty of being human: joy and grief, forever intertwined.
So when you see a grieving heart, don’t look away.
Lean in. Cry with them. Sit with them if it’s all they can manage.
And let your love be louder than their silence.
It’s true, love can’t fix grief.
But it reminds us we’re not alone in it.
And that’s what matters most.
-Her View From Home
