T-13 #36 - Thoughts on grief ... and letting go

Make Time for Small Reflections

This video was shared recently by Jen Lemen. It's a reminder I needed right now and for which I'm grateful.

Perhaps it's one for you ... or someone you know?

In response ... I offer
13 Thoughts on 'Grief' for Today

1. "Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal." (from a headstone in Ireland)

2. "Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose." (from TV show 'The Wonder Years')

3. "In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing." Robert Ingersoll

4. "It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer ... and everything collapses." Colette

5. "You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present." Jan Glidewell

6. "We acquire the strength we have overcome." Ralph Waldo Emerson

7. "When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight." Kahlil Gibran

8. "Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break." William Shakespeare

9. "Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down." Bede Jarrett

10. "If you're going through hell, keep going." Winston Churchill

11. "Even hundredfold grief is divisible by love." Jareb Teague

12. "We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey." Kenji Miyazawa

13. "Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway." Mary C. Crowley

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Small Reflections ... Smile Back

... and 2 more Thoughts for Today for good measure:

"She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts." George Eliot

"As long as I can I will look at this world for both of us. As long as I can I will laugh with the birds, I will sing with the flowers, I will pray to the stars, for both of us." Sascha (as posted on motivateus.com)