Healing After Loss

FEBRUARY 19 With the help of these and other commonplace objects—with the help of the two big elm trees that shaded the house fr ...

FEBRUARY 20 To fashion an inner story of our pain carries us into the heart of it, which is where rebirth inevitably occurs. —SU ...

FEBRUARY 21 I’m for whatever gets you through the night. —FRANK SINATRA We all have our ways of dealing with our pain, and the r ...

FEBRUARY 22 We are called to live with integrity, to express the truth as we perceive it, and to trust God’s ability to use what ...

FEBRUARY 23 It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives Nourish it then that it may leaf and bloom and fill w ...

FEBRUARY 24 People bring us well-meant but miserable consolations when they tell us what time will do to help our grief. We do n ...

FEBRUARY 25 She was easily moved to laughter, a youthful, rather shrill laughter that brought tears to her eyes, and which she w ...

FEBRUARY 26 Again rises from the heart of suffering the ancient cry, O God, why? O God, how long? And the cry is met with silenc ...

FEBRUARY 27 A theme may seem to have been put aside, but it keeps re- turning—the same thing modulated, somewhat changed in form ...

FEBRUARY 28 They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods. —EDITH WHARTON ...

MARCH 1 Where? Where has it gone, that light, that spark, that love that looked into mine? What has it to do with that cold clay ...

MARCH 2 Many promising reconciliations have broken down because, while both parties came prepared to forgive, neither party came ...

MARCH 3 The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss. —EDWARD YOUNG Time is always slipping away from us. But ...

MARCH 4 An individual doesn’t get cancer, a family does. —TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS In facing loss, sharing grief with others in th ...

MARCH 5 Faith is the bird that feels the light And sings when the dawn is still dark. —RABINDRANATH TAGORE In this season of ear ...

MARCH 6 Whereas previously our moods seemed simply sad with occasional patches of light, now we may find an unsettling variety i ...

MARCH 7 I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone su ...

MARCH 8 ’Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. —ALFRED TENNYSON These lines are often used to refer ...

MARCH 9 After the dead are buried, and the maimed have left the hospitals and started their new lives, after the physical pain o ...

MARCH 10 For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not gr ...