Did you know that there has been recent research done on “compassion” which shows it also is also instinctual and causes a chain reaction within our bodies?
With December being here there are so many reasons to give people gifts so I hope over the next few weeks to give you some gift giving ideas for special people in your life.
Today I want to focus on those who may have lost someone they love this year, someone with whom they once celebrated the holidays. How do you show care for them, respect the grief that they are sure to feel and express the love and care in your heart for them and their life.
First and foremost, show that you care.
When the love is imperfect, or a family is destructive, something else can be learned: forgiveness. The spiritual work of being human is learning how to love and how to forgive.
After a loss, comes the day to day numbness. The funeral is over. The flowers have died. The calls are getting fewer. I look at the empty gift baskets and pile of stuff lying on the side that came in them. Books! I have no desire to read. To ‘fix’ how I feel. I know …
Cheese – PELEASE! Did I ever tell you that Cheese is the reason I started Healing Baskets? I still remember the day when searching for a special sympathy gift I was encouraged to send a basket of cheese. Someone somewhere thought that a basket full of cheddar and crackers would be just what was needed …
It’s hard to know what to do when someone’s grieving. No matter how universal the feelings of loss may be, we know that we can never really know how someone is feeling. Sympathy gifts and sympathy baskets are tokens of love.