Hope

 

Shawshank Redemption

When memories are greater than vision, you have already started dying. 

-Jim Downing

Spring

Lilly

True

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Often too true for me. I long to believe what is TRUE.

Friendship

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, "What! You too? I thought I was the only one!"

~CS Lewis

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A disciple asks the rabbi, “Why does the Torah tell us to ‘place these words upon your hearts?’ Why does it not tell us to place these holy words in our hearts? The rabbi answers, “It is because as we are, our hearts are closed, and we cannot place the holy words in our hearts. So we place them on top of our hearts. And there they stay until, one day, the heart breaks and the words fall in.”

(Parker Palmer, “The Broken-Open Heart,” Weavings XXIV:2, p. 11)

Somethings Can't be Learned, They Must be Remembered.

The following clip is from the Legend of Bagger Vance. I recently saw this movie for the first time. It was quite an emotional experience for me that I did not expect. The movie had so many levels to it. I loved the symbolism and complexity of the story line. In my favorite clip, Rannulph Junuh has carried the weight of something that happened to him for too long. It has paralyzed him to really move forward in life, and has caused him to forget who he once was. In the scene Bagger Vance, who seems to me to be symbolic of God in his life, speaks truthful yet tenderly with him. He calls Junuh out of the shadows that has held him and into the light of hope, reminding him of who he really is and reassuring him that he is and was never alone. Beautiful.

Quotes on Grief

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break.  

~William Shakespeare

Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect.  The wisest know nothing.  

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.  

~From television show The Wonder Years

When a person is born we rejoice, and when they're married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened. 

~Margaret Mead

The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. 

~Psalm 34:18

In order to emerge from a state of loss and grief, and begin a new life, people need not so much a therapist as friends who are prepared to walk with them. 

~Jean Vanier