For our “Songs To Chew” episode this week, we’ll listen to NEW GROUND, from my ‘In The Hospital’ album.  Our lives shift when a big loss happens.  Things go along smoothly, then BANG!, something occurs and our lives change drastically.  Our perceptions shift and we see things with ‘new eyes’.  A little girl in a wheel chair once told me that I was ‘T.A.B.’  I said, “What does ‘T.A.B.’ stand for?”  She smiled and said 'Temporarily Able-Bodied'! She was right.  A disabling accident can happen so quickly, that suddenly, I might not be able to walk or throw a ball or speak.  If we’re currently ‘able-bodied’, and we want to try to understand the plight of folks who are ‘other-abled’, without going through what they’ve gone through, we can open our hearts and listen to their stories.  When we do that, some of our own fears and sadness and other painful feelings surface.  But when we’re overwhelmed with hurt and sadness, our tender state of grief often creates a heightened awareness in us.  We notice the loving acts around us that we didn’t notice before. Painful feelings come up for us humans from time to time, and eventually they pass. The more familiarity we have with feeling these feelings ourselves, enables us to better help our friends, family and our children through tough times.

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