Healing After Loss

JANUARY 10 The earth is my sister. I love her daily grace, her silent daring, and how loved I am. How we admire the strength in ...

JANUARY 11 You could put the meaning of original sin this way: given a choice we would rather sulk than rejoin the party. —ROBER ...

JANUARY 12 In the months after my daughter’s death, I filled four note- books with entries—writing sometimes daily, sometimes se ...

JANUARY 13 I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life ...

JANUARY 14 Weeping is perhaps the most human and universal of all relief measures. —DR. KARL MENNINGER Guess what? What women ha ...

JANUARY 15 Keep the door to her life open. —EDITH FOGG HICKMAN How many of us know people who, out of grief, hardly ever mention ...

JANUARY 16 Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty. —ELIE WIESEL Surviving the loss o ...

JANUARY 17 We are real friends now because we have been able to share some painful experiences in our private lives. —MAY SARTON ...

JANUARY 18 Dying is a wild night and a new road. —EMILY DICKINSON One of the things so astonishing and costly about losing a lov ...

JANUARY 19 Trade with the gifts God has given you. —HILDA OF WHITBY At no time more than when we are grieving do we need to pay ...

JANUARY 20 Pain is the most individualizing thing on earth. It is true that it is the great common bond as well, but that realiz ...

JANUARY 21 Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. —MATTHEW 5:4 In the catalog of only nine teachings Jesus gav ...

JANUARY 22 Part of the process [of rebirth] is the growth of a new rela- tionship with the dead...that veritable ami mort Saint- ...

JANUARY 23 Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible—not to have run away. —DAG HAMMARSKJÖL ...

JANUARY 24 That day is lost on which one has not laughed. —FRENCH PROVERB Even now—maybe especially now—we need humor in our liv ...

JANUARY 25 Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. —FAITH BALDWIN Change is the order of life, yet how we resist it. S ...

JANUARY 26 Help thy brother’s boat across, and lo! thine own has reached the shore. —HINDU PROVERB One reason self-help and reco ...

JANUARY 27 And can it be that in a world so full and busy, the loss of one weak creature makes a void in any heart, so wide and ...

JANUARY 28 Feeling better...I also felt a sense of betrayal of my husband, even though I rationally knew that sustained grief co ...

JANUARY 29 Even desolation is a world to be explored. —SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER It is a world we do not want to enter, a world for ...