Resources
We have compiled poems, prayers, quotes, articles and links to sites that we hope can help you through this difficult time.
We too experienced losses and found solace through prayers and words of encouragement.
Poem of the Day
Sometimes
- Colleen RanneySometimes I catch a glimpse, In softened waves of blue My child, my heart …when I see a smile I can’t help but think of you
Sometimes these waves fill oceans. And feelings string on every shore A collections of each memory And every way I wish for more
Sometimes I watch for answers Because each day I call to you I ask for faith and courage And strength …to help me through
Sometimes I ask for bravery Like dolphins in the deep Because time moves oh so slowly And some times the road is steep
Sometimes I want to scream This was not what I had planned Why you ever suffered A mom can’t understand
Sometimes I hear your laughter And remember you at play But My Child I always miss you Not sometimes, but everyday
- The Compassionate Friends
Providing Grief Support After the Death of a Child - The Centering Corporation
The largest non-profit organization providing resources for Grief and Loss in the US. - Daily Strength Bereavement Support Groups
Online forum and support.
To lose someone you love is to alter your life forever…The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes… This hole in your heart is the shape of the one you lost – no one else can fit it.
- Unknown
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
- William Penn
Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in our hearts.
- Mahatma Gandhi
It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
- John Steinbeck
I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.
- Alyson Noel, Evermore
In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.
- J.R.R. Tolkien
