Healing After Loss

APRIL 20 Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repea ...

APRIL 21 We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful. —DAG HAMMARSKJÖLD Why not? Think about it. Even t ...

APRIL 22 Joy comes from simple and natural things, mists over meadows, sunlight on leaves, the path of the moon over water. Even ...

APRIL 23 The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day When the sun is out and the wind is still ...

APRIL 24 Injuries hurt not more in the receiving than in the remem- brance. A small injury shall go as it comes; a great injury ...

APRIL 25 Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be possible ...

APRIL 26 He did not say: You will not be troubled, you will not be belaboured, you will not be disquieted; but he said: You will ...

APRIL 27 Can I see another’s woe, And not be in sorrow, too? Can I see another’s grief, And not seek for kind relief? —WILLIAM B ...

APRIL 28 And time remembered is grief forgotten, And frosts are slain and flowers begotten, And in green underwood and cover Blo ...

APRIL 29 When you find yourself overpowered by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something kind to somebody. —JOHN KE ...

APRIL 30 Oh, if I had Orpheus’ voice and poetry with which to move the Dark Maid and her Lord, I’d call you back, dear love, fro ...

MAY 1 Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. —WILLIAM JAMES At first we are so overwhelmed ...

MAY 2 Anyone who tells a story speaks a world into being. —MICHAEL WILLIAMS One of the customs we have seen develop at memorial ...

MAY 3 It is unwise, because it is untrue, to idealize the dead...We will spend a lot of needed energy keeping that illusion in p ...

MAY 4 Look upon each day that comes as a challenge, as a test of courage. The pain will come in waves, some days worse than othe ...

MAY 5 When you pass through the waters I will be with you: and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk t ...

MAY 6 The warm air makes me dream of what was, and of what would be if you were here. I know that this dream is but an inaptitud ...

MAY 7 Never forget that you are not alone. The Divine is with you, helping and guiding. He is the companion who never fails, the ...

MAY 8 I pray to the birds because I believe they will carry the mes- sages of my heart upward. I pray to them because I believe ...

MAY 9 Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our divinin ...