Healing After Loss

DECEMBER 16 “You will embark,” he said, “on a fair sea, and at times there will be fair weather, but not always. You will meet s ...

DECEMBER 17 The supreme value is not the future but the present. —OCTAVIO PAZ The present is bad enough when we are hit with fre ...

DECEMBER 18 Therefore it is not God’s will that when we feel pain we should pursue it in sorrow and mourning over it, but that s ...

DECEMBER 19 What is there to do when people die—people so dear and rare—but bring them back by remembering? —MAY SARTON One of t ...

DECEMBER 20 When I say “I fear”—don’t let it disturb you, dearest heart. We all fear when we are in waiting rooms. Yet we must p ...

DECEMBER 21 I dreamed I fell through a trap door—into subterranean ter- rors. —HOYT HICKMAN It will always be there—the occasion ...

DECEMBER 22 Every bone in my body aches individually with a dragging weariness of pain, and the joints cry aloud for a warm balm ...

DECEMBER 23 ...memory nourishes the heart, and grief abates. —MARCEL PROUST At this season of the year—so filled with memories a ...

DECEMBER 24 Again at Christmas did we weave The holly round the Christmas hearth; The silent snow possess’d the earth, And calml ...

DECEMBER 25 Where there is great love, there are always miracles. —WILLA CATHER Every religion has its miracles. For Christians, ...

DECEMBER 26 Time does restore to us our quiet joy in the spiritual presence of those we love, so that we learn to remember witho ...

DECEMBER 27 Love is the heartbeat of all life. —PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA We feel it in ourselves—this mysterious generative force t ...

DECEMBER 28 “But, Gran, is everything really all right? Really?” It is com- pletely cosmic questioning, coming from a small girl ...

DECEMBER 29 In a dark time, the eye begins to see. —THEODORE ROETHKE When one walks out into darkness, at first it is hard to se ...

DECEMBER 30 I know my children are concerned about me, but I am all right and I am glad they are letting me have a few days to m ...

DECEMBER 31 It is dark now. The snow is deep blue and the ocean nearly black. It is time for some music. —MAY SARTON In the mids ...

MARTHA WHITMORE HICKMAN is the author of more than twenty books for adults and children. Among her adult titles are The Growing ...

Also by Martha Whitmore Hickman For Adults HOW TO MARRY A MINISTER THE GROWING SEASON: THE SIGHTS AND SOUNDS OF MIDDLE LIFE I WI ...

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