Brittany Rebecca Helton

“He  who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself.”

– George Herbert

‘To forgive is to be freed of burden.’

‘For all evidence of life where I felt only death, let me be grateful.’

‘Let us accept each other, knowing we did the best we could.’

“We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately must we believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.”

– Teilhard De Chardin

‘I will take the risk of believeing and see where it leads me.’

‘I will not take on the facade of false calm – and turn to stone.’

‘Before the mystery of death, let us stand with open hearts and minds.’

“i sit on the rich, moist earth, green earth, and draw my knees to my chest. All is not lost. The birds have simply moved on. They give me the courage to do the same.’

– Terry Tempest Williams

‘In the turning of the seasons, I find promise and hope.’

‘Spirit, whoever you are, wherever you are, be with me now.’

‘As the months pass and the seasons change, something of tranquility descends, and although the well-remembered footstep will not sound again, nor the voice call from the room beyond, there seems to be about one in the air an atmosphere of love, a living presence…It is as though one shared, in some indefinable manner, the freedom and the peace, even at times the joy, of another world where there is no more pain…The feeling is simply there, pervading all thought, all action. When Christ the healer said, “Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted,” h e must have meant just this.”

– Daphne Du Maurier

“All i know from my own experience is that hte more loss we feel the more gratful we should be for whatever it was we had to lose. It means we had something worth grieving for. The ones I’m sorry for are the ones that go through life not even knowing what grief is.”

– Frank O’Connor

Saddened as I am by loss, my heart lifts in gratitude for the richness Brittany has brought to my life.