Erosion

On the eastern shores of Lake Michigan, property owners are desperately trying to stop the waves from destroying their homes.  People who have lived along the lakeshore for decades and whose homes were built far from the edge of the dunes are now scrambling to build seawalls before the winter waves take what’s left of the dunes and their homes with it.  One man who has lived on the lake for thirty years marveled that he’s never seen the lake this high before.  Heavy equipment is all along the shoreline, brought in by anxious homeowners.

In some ways, it feels as if grief is eroding my life.  Loss is redefining my landscape and carving new shores.  It is painful.  What sort of heavy equipment can stop these losses?  None that I know of.  But there is the question - even if I could stop them, should I?

In life, loss is inevitable and it changes you.  Whether you like it or not.  How I let the new changes re-form me…that’s what I need to focus on.  But that will come later.  For now, the waves keep battering.

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