Healing After Loss

NOVEMBER 6 In this month of thanksgiving, we can be thankful for the trials of the past, the blessings of the present, and be he ...

NOVEMBER 7 Open your eyes and see those things which are around us at this hour. —RICHARD JEFFRIES One of our temptations when o ...

NOVEMBER 8 If at times we are somewhat stunned by the tempest, never fear; let us take breath, and go on afresh. —FRANCIS DE SAL ...

NOVEMBER 9 Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplishe ...

NOVEMBER 10 For when is death not within ourselves?...Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and asleep, young and old. ...

NOVEMBER 11 ...and it was gray, and grayer the deeper he went. What if it was deeper than he had figured? But soon the light cha ...

NOVEMBER 12 Give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. —IS ...

NOVEMBER 13 It is important, when dealing with all aspects of grief, to keep the process moving. The temptation is to freeze, to ...

NOVEMBER 14 Even in the dark you have the power to whistle. —FREDERICK BUECHNER It seems a simple thing—to muster the will and e ...

NOVEMBER 15 Guests of my life, You came in the early dawn, and you in the night. Your name was uttered by the Spring flowers and ...

NOVEMBER 16 ...And I knew... That when the sea comes calling you stop being good neighbors, Well acquainted, friendly from a dis ...

NOVEMBER 17 Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become love. That is the mystery. —KA ...

NOVEMBER 18 I don’t really remember the day I first felt that all was not irremediably lost. Was it a child’s smile that awoke m ...

NOVEMBER 19 We are, perhaps uniquely among the world’s creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the fu- ...

NOVEMBER 20 Take time to plan your future...If it is financially possible for you, stay in your own home, with the familiar thin ...

NOVEMBER 21 True prayer brings us to the edge of a great mystery where we become inarticulate, where our knowledge fails. —PARKE ...

NOVEMBER 22 You may my glories and my state depose, But not my griefs. Still I am king of those. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Grief is a ...

NOVEMBER 23 I do not know whether human personality survives physical death. I am content to wait and see what comes after death ...

NOVEMBER 24 ...the astonishing or unfortunate thing is that these deprivations bring us the cure at the same time that they give ...

NOVEMBER 25 Something within me is waking from long sleep, and I want to live and move again. Some zest is returning to me, some ...