Brittany Rebecca Helton

“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.’

“I sometimes hold it half a sin
To put in words the grief I feel;
For words, like nature, half reveal
And half conceal the Soul within.”

– Alfred Tennyson

‘I can trust my feelings to help me speak the truth.’

“There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love the only survival the only meaning.”

– Thornton Wilder

‘I know that love does not cease with the event of death.’

‘All is forgiven. All is forgiven. All is forgiven.’

“What restraint or limit should there be to grief for one so dear?”

– Horace

‘Only from within me can my timetable of grief be discovered.’