Sunday, May 2, 2021

Helen Keller: We Bereaved Are Not Alone

 

We Bereaved Are Not Alone - Helen Keller

We bereaved are not alone.


We belong to the largest company in all the world, the company of those who have known suffering.
When it seems that our sorrow is to great to be borne, let us think of the great family of the heavy hearted into which our grief has given us entrance, and inevitably, we will feel about us their arms, their sympathy, their understanding.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world.


So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

A Fearful Thing to Love What Death Can Touch: Yehuda Halevi

 

'Tis a Fearful Thing
by
Yehuda Halevi


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‘Tis a fearful thing
to love what death can touch.
A fearful thing
to love, to hope, to dream, to be –
to be,
And oh, to lose.
A thing for fools, this,
And a holy thing,
a holy thing
to love.
For your life has lived in me,
your laugh once lifted me,
your word was gift to me.
To remember this brings painful joy.
‘Tis a human thing, love,
a holy thing, to love
what death has touched.