Brittany Rebecca Helton

‘In attending to the mysteries of life and death, I will listen for a chuckle in the darkness.’

‘I will look upon this day as a gift, not to be squandered.’

‘This cloud of darkness is understandable, given what I have been through. But it will pass.’

“I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming…This all sounds very strenous and serious. But now that I have wrestled with it, it’s no longer so. I fell happy – deep down. All is well.”

– Katherine Mansfield

‘Through this experience I will find in myself new strength and wisdom – perhaps, even, new joy.’

“Be still and listen to the stillness within.”

– Darlene Larson Jenks

‘I have a place of peace within myself. I can find it.’

“As I write this it sounds rather negative and hard but I do not mean it to be so. Happiness grounded in reality is far deeper than that built upon fantasy, and suffering teaches one that happiness can catch a person unawares in the midst of deprivation and desolation. There is a certain stripping away of the externals which makes one more sensitive to joy as well as to sorrow.”

– Sheila Cassidy

‘In the midst of darkness there is light; in the midst of sorrow, joy.’

‘”On the wings of time Grief flies away.”

– La Fountaine

‘Years from now, I may agree grief flies away in time. But don’t push me.’

“I know that we live in the lives of those we touch. I have felt in me the living presence of many I have loved and who have loved me. I experience my daughter’s presence with me daily. And I know that this is not limited to those we know in the flesh, for many guests of my life shared neither time nor space with me.”

– Elizabeth Watson

‘When I am alone, I can choose some company to be with me.’

‘We are creatures, and we need one another.’

‘Creation holds us, one by one, and all together.’