Good week-- Sun, Nov 20, 2022

 


-Wendy Roberts- msrwer@gmail.com

Sun, Nov 20, 2022, 1:16 PM
to Samuel, Joe, Brooke, Paul, Sarah, Matthew, Hannah, Adam, Sonora, Rachel, Emily, Andrew
Hello my children, 

It has been a good week. So many blessings to help us get through hard times 

First we got to go to a yoga for grief class on Monday.  It was so helpful and helped me turn off my alarm button that has been on for several months. What I mean by that is that it has felt like I have been in fight or flight mode and scared and overwhelmed and the yoga class helped me connect to the opposite of rest and digest. The reality of the accident has been really hard to digest. Something I want to ignore or think is just a bad dream I will eventually wake up from and not be real. But the yoga class really helped me. 

I have been doing lots of service. It helps so much. 

I am writing a letter each week to women in jail. They give me a lesson to talk about in my letter. This week it included the song “How gentle Gods commands” and I loved thinking about how much the commandments protect and bless us.  

I am singing in a community choir and it is so fun. We are singing a Caribbean Christmas song and I get to be one of the members doing some fun percussion. It makes me happy. Dec 9th is our concert and I am really excited to perform for the first time in many years

We are also singing Grown up Christmas list and i love this line “ Maybe only in our blind belief can we ever find the truth”
I love this line because most of the ways I know dad is still very much alive and helping our family is “blind” I have to have faith and trust that Heavenly Father can make “beauty for ashes” Isaiah 61:3 out of this horrible tragedy. 

Something that also happened this week was an opening of my ability to see more things. What I mean by that is something I learned about when i worked as a special care nursery nurse. When I was in an emergency I found that everything got really weird colors and I could only see right in front of me. I learned that this is part of the fight or flight response and is called “tunnel vision”. It actually helps you “fight or flight” in an emergency and not see all the things that are a distraction. Because of the yoga class I am able to see more things that tunnel vision had turned off more and I hope to be a better mom and serve you all better.  I am so sorry if in my grief I have neglected something you needed from me. I will try to do better now

Last we got to go to a really fun concert last night. Emily helped us find the Pentatonix concert for Christmas and it was wonderful. Some tears when the opening band sang this song https://open.spotify.com/track/5H8VW8WC9cZne20qIdmxZG?si=RHp7TgWJTx-LG0jDDHiEdQ which I didn’t expect but also a lot of fun. 

Love you all

Mom

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