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“Why are the photographs of him as a little boy so incredibly hard to look at? Something is over. Now instead of those shiny moments being things we can share together in delighted memories, I, the survivor, have to bear them alone. So it is with all the memories of him. They all lead into blackness. All I can do is remember him, I cannot experience him. Nothing new can happen between us.”

Quote by Nicholas Wolterstorff

Book:Lament for a Son
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Lament for a Son

This book delves into the emotional depths of a father's sorrow following the untimely death of his son, offering a raw and honest portrayal of the grieving process. more

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Nicholas Wolterstorff
Nicholas Wolterstorff

Nicholas Wolterstorff, born on January 21, 1932, is an American philosopher known for his work in ethics, philosophy of religion, and aesthetics. He is particularly renowned for his discussions on religious freedom and religious tolerance. more

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“I think about the people I know with the absolutely largest hearts, people with a stunning capacity for endurance and grace and kindness against the most screaming terrors and pains. My Mom and Dad, for example, enduring the death of their first child at six months old, the boy the brother I never met, dying quietly in his stroller on the porch in the moment that my mother stepped back inside to get a pair of gloves because the crisp brilliant April wind was filled with a whistling cutting wind.... Fifty years later after five more children and two miscarriages she is standing in the kitchen with her usual eternal endless cup of tea and I ask her: How do you get over the death of your child? And she says, in her blunt honest direct terse kind way, You don't. Her face harrowed like a hawk for a moment in the swirling steam of the tea. p112-13”

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