July 4, 2025
When you lose a child, you find out about things you never knew existed such as International Bereaved Mother’s Day in May and National Bereaved Parents Month in July.
As stated in the Bereaved Parents Group on Facebook; “This isn’t a club anyone wants to join. It’s one you wake up in when the world tilts and never fully rights itself again.”
Truer words were never spoken.
I’m becoming very emotional as I type this because July is also the month when my beloved John was taken away from us by such a stupid, senseless act of gun violence.
I feel the need to visit John’s grave today so I’ll close this entry now by saying;
If you know a bereaved parent, say their child’s name.
Not because it will make them sad.
But because it reminds them that someone else remembers, too.
John Leon Wilks
