After the Avalanche
Digging Through Grief
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The avalanche that violently and instantaneously snatched my husband from my life on Tuesday, February 11, 1992, was only the awful beginning of an entire course through the unknown I could never have imagined, with all of the changes and contrasts which were to follow in its wake.
I travel the road of adjustment, release and acceptance. As I continue along this path, I find each piece of the process to be shared with so many others I encountered then and encounter still. There are so many reasons and ways to grieve in this fallen world. So many icy instruments of separation.
What I have in common with you is probably more encompassing than you may think.
No matter your pain or its depth, nor the reason for your grief—you are not alone in the experience. The nuances and patterns will be as unique to you as you are to your Creator, but, in each separate fragment—someone understands. There is someone who knows. We walk, we run, we dance, we stumble, we crawl—sometimes we lie motionless—on this path of life. We have each other. We are survivors.
If you have known the anguish of having someone, or even something, you love ripped from your life;
if you have journeyed, or journey still, through the misery of the unknown when someone precious is missing;
if you have found yourself forced to learn a new way of living after a life-changing catastrophe;
if you have been overwhelmed with seemingly unanswerable questions, watched the course of your life become so out of your own control, sobbed out your confusion and desperation or shouted your curses at a God Who seemed to be sleeping,
then you know what it is to live...
After the Avalanche...
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“On February 11, 1992, my husband and our friend drove up to a local Southern California resort for a short day of skiing … and never returned.
“I began to experience an unfamiliar gamut of terrifying, confusing, and gripping emotions. In the following 82 days of searching for them, I kept a journal of my thoughts, prayers and feelings, also thinking what a wonderful story it would make when they survived and miraculously emerged from the devastating snowstorm and heavily avalanched mountain—proving the power of prayer and the unlimited ability of God!
“He didn’t answer our prayers as we hoped; when my husband’s lifeless body was recovered, the miracle story slipped away. I read everything I could find on grieving and became so frustrated that I could find so few of the kind of books I ached to read. I wanted to share others’ journeys … to know their intimate thoughts and their struggles and their triumphs. I felt the Spirit prompting to write my own book—that there were others like me who would be edified by reading my story.”
No matter when or how you have suffered loss, you will recognize, relate, and be encouraged as you travel Ellen's journey—plunging into the depths of the valley of death, digging through the mountain of debris, and emerging to find hope, healing and new life After the Avalanche.
About the Author
Lyn Ellen Hicks worked for 13 years with Campus Crusade for Christ as editor and reporting manager for The JESUS Film Project®. She began writing at the age of 10, and earned a master’s degree in professional writing from the University of Southern California. She now lives with her family in San Clemente, California.