Brittany Rebecca Helton

“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.’

‘I will step into the unknown dark, trusting I will be safe.’

‘I will stop my frantic busyness and reconnect with my source of strength.’

Happy Birthday to your Grandma!

‘Can we, in the air that surrounds us, the sunshine that bathes us with its warmth and light, the life that surges in our own being, imagine the abiding presence of our loved one.’

“There is now way out, only a way forward.”

– Michael Hollings

‘I stand at the threshold of new life. What will I do? I can stand still. Or I can go forward. Those are my choices.’

“…you will not be cured, but…one day – an idea that will horrify you now – this intolerable misfortune will become a blessed memory of a being who will never again leave you. But you are in a stage of unhappiness where it is impossible for you to have faith in these reassurances.”

– Marcel Proust

‘If I cannot believe it now, I can hold out the hope that in time my lost love will be a continuing blessed presence in my life.’