Healing After Loss

JULY 29 Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you. —WA ...

JULY 30 In the point of rest at the center of our being, we encounter a world where all things are at rest in the same way. Then ...

JULY 31 Pain—has an Element of Blank— It cannot recollect When it began—or if there were A time when it was not— —EMILY DICKINSO ...

AUGUST 1 Faith is a way of waiting—never quite knowing, never quite hearing or seeing, because in the darkness we are all but a ...

AUGUST 2 We cannot do everything at once but we can do something at once. —CALVIN COOLIDGE When we are grieving we are often bes ...

AUGUST 3 Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief? —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Grief is one of the ...

AUGUST 4 Nothing can fill the gap when we are away from those we love, and it would be wrong to try and find anything. We must s ...

AUGUST 5 My wife of 57 years was buried today beside our son, who died in 1941 as a result of a truck accident when he was hitch ...

AUGUST 6 Those who grieve find comfort in weeping and in arousing their sorrow until the body is too tired to bear the inner emo ...

AUGUST 7 By discovering my own inwardness I am in communion with all other human beings, with nature and beauty and the goodness ...

AUGUST 8 She thought that she had never before had a chance to realize the might, grimness and tenderness of God. She thought th ...

AUGUST 9 I tell you hopeless grief is passionless. —ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING One of the many moods of grief is a kind of numbn ...

AUGUST 10 I have come to believe in the “Sacrament of the Moment,” which presupposes trust in the ultimate goodness of my creato ...

AUGUST 11 The relationships of our life are a system, an interlocking network, and when one element is affected, so are they all ...

AUGUST 12 O Great Spirit, Whose voice I hear in the winds, And whose breath gives life to all the world, hear me! I am small and ...

AUGUST 13 ...you will not be cured, but...one day—an idea that will horrify you now—this intolerable misfortune will become a bl ...

AUGUST 14 There is no way out, only a way forward. —MICHAEL HOLLINGS “Is there no relief from this wound?” we wonder. “Is there ...

AUGUST 15 I am reminded that what I adore, admire, and draw from Mother is inherent in the Earth. My mother’s spirit can be reca ...

AUGUST 16 Like an ant on a stick both ends of which are burning, I go to and fro without knowing what to do,and in great despair ...

AUGUST 17 It was not until the cremation was over, which only my children and a few friends attended, and I had scattered my hus ...