Learning To Breathe Again : Choosing Life and Finding Hope After a Shattering Loss

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Summary: Tammy is thankful, Deborah.
Review: [From the Desk of Tammy Trent]
Deborah - Thanks for your comments. You're soo right, nobody should ever take life or love for granted and we should always have a thankful heart for the things God gives us. Life is very fragile. I'm sure you didn't mean to come across insensitive as you stated you found it a little hard at times to feel sorry for me because I had the "perfect marriage" for 15 years. (Let me just correct you there - we were married for 11 years- and this book isn't about "feeling sorry for me" or "the perfect marriage") Yes, it's true, I had a wonderful marriage but it was not a perfect one as you state. I clearly talk about that in my book. It's something we worked at every day. Just like any relationship. You have to be careful not to assume that people take every wonderful gift in their life for granted or that they are unthankful. And those of us that have lost have a hard time hearing, "you should be thankful you had that amount of time together". That is soo irrelevant and certainly doesn't lesson the pain. I certainly pray that you too find amazing love someday. And I pray that God protects your own heart from feeling resentful to those of us that have experienced true love. The TRUE LESSON here is to rejoice when God gives somebody a gift such as true love and pray that God might bless you someday with that same kind of love if that's what your heart desires. No matter what ones loss or void they feel in life, God can restore, heal and fulfill. I hope that makes clear my thankful heart.
Tammy Trent