Healing After Loss

MARCH 31 They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; the ...

APRIL 1 Because humor brings us back to earth, it helps us to use well what is left to us even when we are keenly aware of what ...

APRIL 2 The deadliest of all things to me is my loss of faith in nature. No spring—no summer. Fog always, and the snow faded fro ...

APRIL 3 A faithful friend is the medicine of life. —THE APOCRYPHA During the week following the memorial service for our daughte ...

APRIL 4 Faith is the centerpiece of a connected life. It allows us to live by the grace of invisible strands. It is a belief in ...

APRIL 5 One of the most pathetic things about us human beings is our touching belief that there are times when the truth is not ...

APRIL 6 The other Sunday, I remember, in a political discussion I said some things I shouldn’t have. I can’t tell you how un- ha ...

APRIL 7 Spirituality in its broadest sense is, quite simply, a way of life that reveals an awareness of the sacred and a relatio ...

APRIL 8 Sometimes, with the best of intentions, friends don’t know how to help. They may feel that to bring up the subject of ou ...

APRIL 9 I must force myself to look upon the familiar things, the coat hanging on the chair, the hat in the hall...To ease the p ...

APRIL 10 At every point in the human journey we find that we have to let go in order to move forward; and letting go means dying ...

APRIL 11 What is essential does not die but clarifies. —THORNTON WILDER One of the ways we can enrich our lives after a great lo ...

APRIL 12 I have been thinking about the change of the seasons. I don’t want to miss spring this year. I want to be there on the ...

APRIL 13 Was he still hovering about the house at home, the essence of himself, and were I there would I perceive his presence?. ...

APRIL 14 So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today’s trouble is enough for today. —MATTH ...

APRIL 15 Suffering breaks our world. Like a tree struck by light- ning—splintered, shaken, denuded—our world is broken by suffer ...

APRIL 16 At a time like this, how beautiful is every human face. —NEWS COMMENTATOR The occasion was the death of Robert Kennedy, ...

APRIL 17 Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee. —JOB 12:8 In the spring, when all the world awakens, sometimes our loss se ...

APRIL 18 When I put the key into the apartment door I had a moment of panic and stood hesitatingly on the doorstep, until I felt ...

APRIL 19 Who would have thought my shrivel’d heart Could have recovered greenness? —GEORGE HERBERT Springtime after the cold and ...