Brittany Rebecca Helton

‘Knowing I have company in my struggle can help me see my way through.’

‘I will not be afraid to be still. I will savor the refreshments of silence. Perhaps the spirit of my loved one will join me.’

‘In my ability to endure I see a strength I didn’t know I had.’

‘I will take a small step – just one. In my mind’s eye, perhaps I can see my loved one nodding in encouragement – “Yes. Go on. You can. I am with you.” ‘

‘Sometimes in my darkness I can believe I am held in a love which supports all creation. Not always, but sometimes.’

‘Sometimes it is hard for me to go into groups. But my connections to other people are the flow of life to me.’

‘Nothing is to be gained by turning away from the truth. When the circumstances of my life are grim, I will face the grimness, learn what it has to teach me, and walk on through.’

‘I look forward to the day when images of my loved one’s life are no longer associated with the event of my loved one’s death.’

“And can it be that in a world so full and busy, the loss of one weak creature makes a void in nay heart, so wide an deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!”

– Charles Dickens

‘I am grateful for those who reach out to me, and for the opportunities I will have to reach out to others.’