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
To Those I Love And Those Who Love Me
- Unknown AuthorWhen I am gone, release me let me go I have so many things to see and do You mustn’t tie yourself to me with tears Be happy that we had so many years I gave you my love, you can only guess How much you gave to me in happiness
I thank you for the love you have shown But now it’s time I traveled alone So grieve a while for me if grieve you must Then let your grief be comforted by trust It’s only for a while that we must part So bless the memories within your heart I won’t be far away. For life goes on
So if you need me call and I will come Though you can’t see or touch me I’ll be there And if you listen with your heart you’ll hear All of my love around you soft and clear And then when you must come this way alone I’ll greet you with a smile and welcome you home
- 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
