connections

Lately I have been playing the New York Times Connections game online. Each morning I look at the puzzle and try to see how the words in the game are connected to one another. Many times the words are tricky in that they can have more than one meaning. My mind may want to group them together or try to make them connect to each other in a way that makes sense to me, but not necessarily connect in the way they were intended to for the puzzle. This is how our mind works, especially when it comes to our grief way of thinking. We try to make the pieces fit together, to make sense of the loss in a way that really doesn’t make sense. Keeping an open mind and an open heart can help us to see the way things are interconnected with a whole new perspective. We may have a totally different idea about the story surrounding our loved ones passing from that of which is the actual reality. If we can look at it from all different angles, the same way we look at the different words having different connections in the game, we can come to different conclusions that just may bring us more peace. Just remember we are always connected to our loved ones through our love, and there really is no other way to change that connection.