Healing After Loss

MAY 30 Grief melts awayLike snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing. —GEORGE HERBERT We thought it would never happen—t ...

MAY 31 There is not one life which the Life-giver ever loses out of His sight; not one which sins so that He casts it away; not ...

JUNE 1 We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. —DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Who is ready? We have our plans, thing ...

JUNE 2 Our joys as winged dreams do fly; Why then should sorrow last? Since grief but aggravates thy loss, Grieve not for what i ...

JUNE 3 How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moi ...

JUNE 4 Truly, it is allowed to weep. By weeping, we disperse our wrath; and tears go through the heart, even like a stream. —OVI ...

JUNE 5 Lying awake at dawn, I remember them, With a love that is almost joy I remember them: Lost, and all mine, all mine, forev ...

JUNE 6 Learning to trust will be for all of us the means by which the root system grows firm and nourishes the tree of life. —EL ...

JUNE 7 We cannot re-create this world...We cannot even, truly, re- create ourselves. Only our behavior can we re-create, or crea ...

JUNE 8 Then let not winter’s ragged hand deface In thee thy summer, ere thou be distilled. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Grief hangs on a ...

JUNE 9 Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being, and walk away from every ...

JUNE 10 ...he was catapulted into a whole new world, and lost in it. The sky was different. A ham sandwich was different. His ow ...

JUNE 11 But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them. In the sight of the unwise ...

JUNE 12 And then the idealization. Another distortion. Idealizing her in a way antithetical to her nature. Bella was no lofty ma ...

JUNE 13 I must learn to: open bottles, move the furniture, open stuck windows, go home alone, investigate the noise in the night ...

JUNE 14 God never says, you should have come yesterday; he never says, you must come again tomorrow, but today if you will hear ...

JUNE 15 We found that our circle of friends shifted...We were sur- prised and disappointed that people we thought were good frie ...

JUNE 16 I knew that...the full acceptance of the finality of loss, and all the pain that goes with it, need not diminish life bu ...

JUNE 17 A new day rose upon me. It was as if another sun had risen in the sky; the heavens were indescribably brighter, and the ...

JUNE 18 Nothing could stop you. Not the best day. Not the quiet. Not the ocean rocking. You went on with your dying. —MARK STRAN ...