Category: Miscarriage and Infant Loss

• What Blossoms in a Children’s Graveyard

  

  We visited the cemetery today, as is our custom, since November is the month of the Holy Souls, and this week is the Octave, and you get an indulgence for going there to pray for the dead. I don’t think I would much want to go—I’m pretty lethargic these days; can’t seem to clean the…

  Michael Shelby Suberlak

  November 7, 2024

  Art Life, Catholicism, Christianity, Healing, Marriage and Family Life, Miscarriage and Infant Loss, Motherhood, Pregnancy Loss, recovery, spirituality

  Catholicism, Christianity, death, faith, family life, grief, Healing, inspiration, mental health, miscarriage, post partum, prayer, prolife, religion, spirituality

• A Little Grief

  

  The bond with one’s own pre-born baby is a bond more basic than fondness. It sits deeper than personality. It is a bond made irrevocably but not yet fully realized. The satisfaction of loving is in knowing the other, but I can’t really know Doloran as I know my living children. And that is perhaps…

  Michael Shelby Suberlak

  April 5, 2023

  Art Life, Catholicism, Healing, Marriage and Family Life, Miscarriage and Infant Loss, Motherhood, Our Lady of Sorrows, Uncategorized

  art, Catholicism, family life, grief, Lent, miscarriage, Motherhood, Our Lady of Sorrows, prayer