Healing After Loss

MARCH 11 We are called to be food and drink for one another. —WENDY M. WRIGHT That’s how important we are to each other—as essen ...

MARCH 12 The present crisis is always the worst crisis. —ELAINE M. PREVALLET We get through one terrible day. Then another. Even ...

MARCH 13 Was ever grief like mine? —GEORGE HERBERT Perhaps initially this is what we all think—that we are alone in experiencing ...

MARCH 14 Definite work is not always that which is cut and squared for us, but that which comes as a claim upon the conscience, ...

MARCH 15 The strands are all there: to the memory nothing is ever lost. —EUDORA WELTY When we have lost a loved one, we often ex ...

MARCH 16 It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man’s death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sa ...

MARCH 17 Every aspect of life had become perilous to Dinah, and all she knew how to do was to hang on to her life exactly as it ...

MARCH 18 Love...bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. —I CORINTHIANS 13: ...

MARCH 19 What was it in the sweep of the sky, the giant outcropping of rock, the sassafras leaf in my hand? I did not know, but ...

MARCH 20 The plant grows in the mist and under clouds as truly as under sunshine. —WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING After a traumatic eve ...

MARCH 21 Ah woe is me! Winter is come and gone, But grief returns with the revolving year. —PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Anniversaries! ...

MARCH 22 I think I am beginning to understand why grief feels so much like suspense. It comes from the frustration of so many im ...

MARCH 23 Let not future things disturb thee, for thou wilt come to them, if it shall be necessary, having with thee the same rea ...

MARCH 24 A person that never climbs will never fall. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sometimes, devastated as we are by grief at the loss o ...

MARCH 25 It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow’s burden is added to the b ...

MARCH 26 If you are an artist, it is work that fulfills and makes you come into wholeness, and that goes on through a lifetime. ...

MARCH 27 When your burden is heaviest, you can always lighten a little some other burden. At the times when you cannot see God, ...

MARCH 28 Grief comes in unexpected surges...Mysterious cues that set off a reminder of grief. It comes crashing like a wave, swe ...

MARCH 29 Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean, do not be disturbed because of your imperfections, and a ...

MARCH 30 Possess yourself as much as you possibly can in peace; not by any effort, but by letting all things fall to the ground ...