“If you are looking for honey, you will get stings. Similarly, when you seek victory, you may sustain scars from the battlefield, but if you work diligently, you will attain it.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“When we refuse ourselves permission to grieve, we shut off a vital piece of our hearts that needs seeing, expressing, and loving: a wounded child, a raging wolf, an injured spirit.
When we give ourselves permission to grieve, we embrace the child. We release the wolf. We heal the spirit. We run towards what scares us most only to find that “it” is ourselves... and it’s not so much scary as is it is afraid. And we don’t want the fear to go away as much as we want the fear to be seen, heard, and wholeheartedly loved.”
Source: Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss
“Cody and I, we escaped MacHeath and that was a miracle, and our time together seems like another sort of miracle. But it is over.”
Source: The Golden Tree
“Was I simply using a psychological defense mechanism to protect myself from unbearable grief? That’s what some people might say. But I disagree. Psychological defense mechanisms are supposed to protect you from pain, and I was in terrible pain. I was heartbroken, overwhelmed by grief, despair, and loss. Knowing that Bao was coming back to me did nothing to ease the heartbreak of having lost him. That might not make sense, but that’s how it was.”
Source: Will YOUR Dog Reincarnate?
“I know people make poor decisions when they're grieving. It's not exactly an excuse, but maybe it's a reminder that we're all just humans trying our best.”
Source: Love the One You Hate
“If love is the only thing we can take with us when we die, what's left for the people who stay?”
Source: What if Stars Don't Die
“you don't lose a person
like a set of keys because you don't find them again
and you can still get to where you're going.”
Source: Lord of the Butterflies
“Every lament is a prayer; a statement of faith”
Source: Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament
“Grieving is a messy process, and you yearn for it to just go away. You don't know when a sunset or a trip to the pharmacy is going to trigger a memory that crushes your spirit.”
Source: Being There: How to Love Those Who Are Hurting
“God holds every tear in the hallow of His hand, and each one that we shed is intermingled with a thousand of His own. And someday He will welcome us home, draw us deep into His embrace and let the tears of both spill on the floor, never to be collected again.”