Healing After Loss

OCTOBER 17 Make me to say, when all my griefs are gone, “Happy the heart that sighed for such a one!” —SAMUEL DANIEL If we didn’ ...

OCTOBER 18 ’Twant me, ’twas the Lord. I always told him, “I trust to you. I don’t know where to go or what to do, but I expect y ...

OCTOBER 19 ...how complicated and individual mending is; the time re- quired for healing cannot be measured against any fixed ca ...

OCTOBER 20 More than anything I have learned that we are all frail people, vulnerable and wounded; it is just that some of us ar ...

OCTOBER 21 If you wish me to weep, you yourself Must first feel grief. —HORACE Why is it easier to express our grief in the pres ...

OCTOBER 22 Trouble not thyself by pondering life in its entirety...Rather, as each occasion arises in the present, put this ques ...

OCTOBER 23 “Why not” is a slogan for an interesting life. —MASON COOLEY At first our energy is absorbed in doing the necessary t ...

OCTOBER 24 When it seems that our sorrow is too great to be borne, let us think of the great family of the heavy-hearted into wh ...

OCTOBER 25 O Lord, my heart is not lifted up, my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and ...

OCTOBER 26 Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restless- ness...Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into ...

OCTOBER 27 My grief and pain are mine. I have earned them. They are part of me. Only in feeling them do I open myself to the les ...

OCTOBER 28 Shall we live in mystery and yet conduct ourselves as though everything were known? —CHRISTOPHER FRY When we are grie ...

OCTOBER 29 Be still, my heart, these great trees are prayers. —RABINDRANATH TAGORE When we are grieving, we’re apt to feel in so ...

OCTOBER 30 Without friends the world is but a wilderness...There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth ...

OCTOBER 31 All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well. —JULIAN OF NORWICH At a time when I th ...

NOVEMBER 1 ...we talked in a kind of ocean depth of memories where magic fish swam past, as we evoked our parents and Joy’s sist ...

NOVEMBER 2 Living on memories, clinging to relics and photographs, is an illusion. Like the food offered one in dreams, it will ...

NOVEMBER 3 Wilbur’s heart brimmed with happiness...“Welcome to the barn cellar. You have chosen a hallowed doorway from which to ...

NOVEMBER 4 Feeling light within, I walk. —NAVAJO NIGHT CHANT Each of us carries a light within, though often it seems shrouded i ...

NOVEMBER 5 While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. —JAMES BOSWELL It is probably well-meaning—this attempt ...