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“My mother who died young In an outlandish rhythm Would have been seventy now And perhaps dead in funeral time. So I may start to mourn As I would celebrate The first or second birthday Of a still-born baby. - Out of Season”

Book:The Survivors

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“My interactions with troubled or angry congregants have involved less explaining and more hand-holding. I have more than once paid a condolence call on a family to whom something so awful had happened that words seemed inadequate. So I didn’t offer words, beyond ‘I’m sorry, I feel so bad for you.’ I would often sit quietly with the grieving widow or parent for several minutes, and when I would get up to go, the mourner would throw her arms around me and say, ‘Thank you for being here with us.’ My presence represented God’s caring presence, the symbolic statement that God had not abandoned them. That reassurance, more than any theological wisdom, was what I was uniquely qualified to offer them.”

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Book:Nine Essential Things I've Learned About Life

Source: Nine Essential Things I've Learned About Life

“I've found that martinis make mourning much easier.”

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Author:Amanda Shae

“In daylight we pick up our tinned rations and hike off, every artery and nerve of us, into the rest of our commemorative lives.”

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Author:Tess Gallagher

“exactly half the phenomenal world is gone”

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“Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy; My sin was too much hope of thee, loved boy”

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Author:Ben Jonson

“What perishes is only really real. I twist the dial and you are everywhere.”

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“How critical it is to stay focused on Jesus Christ.”

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Book:ONE: Unfolding God's Eternal Purpose from House to House

Source: ONE: Unfolding God's Eternal Purpose from House to House

“In my kind world the dead were out of range And I could not forgive the sad or strange In beast or man.”

Death Loss Grief Mourning Death Of A Pet

Author:Richard Wilbur

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