Letting Go

 
Letting Go is the hardest thing. There´s a "small" letting go when a relationship ends, and a big one when a person you loved leaves earth forever. Both are hard, and I´ve never been good at letting anything or anyone go.

Making a sympathy card is always a hard thing, and I remember that it made me happy when I´ve made one for a stamping friend years ago when her husband had passed away, and when I met her again, she hugged and thanked me for my card. 

For this week´s Sunday Postcard Art challenge Rein asked us for a sympathy card, and it was the hardest thing to make one for a future farewell. When I make a sympathy card, I usually have the person on my mind that has left us, and making the card is part of the process of letting this person go.

I love to use images for sympathy cards that aren´t made for this purpose. Of course you can use falling leaves, bare trees etc., but there´s so much more. I´ve even made sympathy cards with images expressing love only, and they can bring hope, I know. 

The German sentence on my card above means "Letting go costs less strength than holding on, but nevertheless it´s so much harder."