Category: Grief
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Endurance
Today I was thinking about how my life mirrors the theme of That’s Why They Call It the Blues by Elton John. The song is often mistaken for being about despair, but it is really about endurance. It does not deny sadness. It names it, sits with it, and keeps going anyway. The blues are…
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What I Would Tell You Now
For Joshua Blake Hargrove from John Hagrove his dad June 2025 1984–2002 My son, If I could sit across from you today—twenty-three years after you left this world—I would begin with the words that still rise unbidden in my heart: I miss you. Every day. Not with the same sharp ache as before, but with…
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My Epitath
Here lies John E. Hargrove January 24, 1958 – [date yet to be written] A boy from Buna who never stopped wondering how things worked and never stopped trying to make them work for others. He chased signals across microwave towers and fiber miles, built networks that carried light to forgotten places, and in the…
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Passing
June 21 2002, Life was good, Was doing well in all aspects. Success was everywhere. 50 minutes in June 22, and suddenly nothing was good any longer. nothing made sense anymore. In one moment, everything focused on one thing, did I believe in a life or death way in eternal life based on Jesus Christ…
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The Grief Process is longer than I expected
June 22 230am – Leisa and I learned our lives would change forever. We learned that our son Joshua was dead, killed in a head on automobile accident at 1250am. That was 2002. It was something neither Leisa nor I thought we could survive. Somehow through God’s grace we survived and thrived, it was not…
