Healing After Loss

JANUARY 30 Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must ...

JANUARY 31 God is serious about knowing how it is with us. —WILLIE S. TEAGUE In his best-selling book When Bad Things Happen to ...

FEBRUARY 1 The man who removed mountains began by carrying away small stones. —CHINESE PROVERB How do we start picking up the pi ...

FEBRUARY 2 She thought that she had never before had a chance to realize the strength that human beings have, to endure; she lov ...

FEBRUARY 3 Silence is the strength of our interior life...If we fill our lives with silence, then we will live in hope. —THOMAS ...

FEBRUARY 4 I am not mad:—I would to heaven, I were, For then, ’tis like I should forget myself: O, if I could, what grief should ...

FEBRUARY 5 As for inflicting our sorrow on other people, one does not want to go around blathering and crying all the time. But ...

FEBRUARY 6 But such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep ...

FEBRUARY 7 When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. —CHARLES BEARD Often it is easiest to see the stars in the long, cold ...

FEBRUARY 8 Recovery is not a process we can will, but consists of exper- iencing many small deaths, the passing of significant a ...

FEBRUARY 9 Light griefs can speak; great ones are dumb. —SENECA We are urged, for our own health, to “talk about it.” Some- time ...

FEBRUARY 10 In the midst of winter I discovered that there was in me an invincible summer. —ALBERT CAMUS It surprises us. We kno ...

FEBRUARY 11 The problem with death is absence. —ROGER ROSENBLATT After all our attempts to comfort ourselves and to make sense o ...

FEBRUARY 12 It takes more than will power to stop thinking of someone you have loved and lost. I could see that in the slump of ...

FEBRUARY 13 Grief dares us to love once more. —TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS It would be easy, wouldn’t it, to somehow close down the v ...

FEBRUARY 14 For everything there is a season...a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh ...

FEBRUARY 15 Spirituality is that place where the utterly intimate and the vastly infinite meet. —RICK FIELDS Among the occasions ...

FEBRUARY 16 Should his heart break and the grief pour out, it would flow over the whole earth, it seems, and yet, no one sees it ...

FEBRUARY 17 All the wonderful things in life are so simple that one is not aware of their wonder until they are beyond touch. Ne ...

FEBRUARY 18 This is the Hour of Lead— Remembered, if outlived, As Freezing persons recollect the Snow— First—Chill—then Stupor—t ...