Brittany Rebecca Helton

‘If part of my legacy from sorrow is new strength, I will embrace it. I will not turn away.’

‘I will try to be present to this day.’

‘The moods of grief, like the moods of the day or of the year, are to be honored, and will pass.’

‘God is present in my joy, and my sorrow.’

“Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil; for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies; thou anoinstest my head with oil, my cup overflows. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.”

– Psalm 23:4-6

‘I am grateful for words that heal.’

“To forgive oneself”? No, that doesn’t work:we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.”

– Dag Hammarskjold

“Death is the veil which those who live call life:
They sleep, and it is lifted.”

– Percy Bysshe Shelley

‘Life is an adventure whose terms I know. Death is an adventure, too.’

‘I will speak of my lost love – one way to learn my new life.’

“Time elapses different for the bereaved. It creeps. Every minute had been so fraught, so filled with emotions, events and high drama, that each day had passed like a week.”

– Richard Meryman

‘Today is its own time. Tomorrow’s time will be different and I won’t try to second-guess it.’

‘When I am feeling alone and cut off from all sources of support, I will “try on for size” the possibility that God is with me, and will see me through.’