February 20, 2021 - Friday (137/365)
This one was too good not to share. Also, I didn't take any pictures today. 😅
It was kind of a rough afternoon in our house. Ben found out that another one of his cousins, Jesse, died of a drug overdose after four months of being clean and sober. Just two days ago he posted on Facebook saying how blessed he was to have his sobriety and his life. Nobody (as far as we know) knows what caused him to relapse, but it was just too much for his body. It's really difficult for us being out here sometimes, especially at times when our families are struggling. But it's more than that. It's also that we just don't know people anymore who understand what we're going through. We don't know people who can empathize or even people who know people who do drugs or, for the most part, who have lost people who are close to them. It can be an isolating and lonely feeling. We have each other to lean on for support, but we crave the support of our brothers and sisters in fellowship too. People just freeze up when they're faced with other people's grief and sadness. It's not easy to know how to react! Anyway, we'll be fine and we'll heal, but we've experienced a lot of loss in the last 15 months. 4 of our family members have died in that span of time and it just feels like too much, especially since 3 of them were our age or younger. It can be hard to heal your heart when it just keeps breaking over and over again.
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