Healing After Loss

AUGUST 18 If God is, He is everywhere present. He is not an occasional visitor, nor ever more truly present than at this very in ...

AUGUST 19 Time elapses differently for the bereaved. It creeps. Every minute had been so fraught, so filled with emotions, event ...

AUGUST 20 Eleonora [Duse] said, “Tell me about Deirdre and Patrick,” and made me repeat to her all their little sayings and ways ...

AUGUST 21 Death is the veil which those who live call life: They sleep, and it is lifted. —PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY At first this se ...

AUGUST 22 “To forgive oneself”? No, that doesn’t work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ou ...

AUGUST 23 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil; for thou art with me; thy rod and thy st ...

AUGUST 24 In prayer, you encounter God in the soft breeze, in the dis- tress and joy of your neighbor and in the loneliness of y ...

AUGUST 25 She sat there and began to learn patience, staring at the floor, where a dusty track from the door of the sitting-room ...

AUGUST 26 Be in the world as if you were a stranger or a traveller: when evening time comes, expect not the morning; and when mo ...

AUGUST 27 Returning from the wilderness [a man] becomes a restorer of order, a preserver. He sees the truth, recognizes his true ...

AUGUST 28 If death my friend and me divide, thou dost not, Lord, my sorrow chide, or frown my tears to see; restrained from pass ...

AUGUST 29 I was in a garden at the Rodin Museum. For a few minutes I was alone, sitting on a stone bench between two long hedges ...

AUGUST 30 Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak Whispers the oe’r fraught heart and bids it break. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEA ...

AUGUST 31 I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower—the Light in my darkness, the Voice ...

SEPTEMBER 1 We can be a little more resistant to calls of duty, though re- sponsibilities, too, can help us keep going. But if w ...

SEPTEMBER 2 What restraint or limit should there be to grief for one so dear? —HORACE There is no universal time frame for griev ...

SEPTEMBER 3 So I was long ago forgiven. I listened to my mother on her deathbed tell the doctor her son was “always a good boy,” ...

SEPTEMBER 4 There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love the only survival the only meaning. —THO ...

SEPTEMBER 5 I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like nature, half reveal And half concea ...

SEPTEMBER 6 Who sees Me in all, And sees all in Me, For him I am not lost, And he is not lost for Me. —BHAGAVAD GITA What we are ...