10 Ideas to Guide & Comfort You in Your Grieving
Wise and reassuring words give us comfort and help provide language for what we’re experiencing. What I have for you today are some words from various people that encourage me and I hope will help you on your way.
As you read them, see which idea lands and gives you strength or guidance as you travel the road you are on.
10 Ideas to Bring Comfort and Guide You in Your Grieving
Idea #1: What we feel matters
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. — Helen Keller
Idea #2: Sadness opens the soul
I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; Yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; Yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge. — Og Mandino
Idea #3: Don’t close the keyboard
The melody that the loved one played upon the piano of your life will never be played quite that way again, but we must not close the keyboard and allow the instrument to gather dust. We must seek out other artists of the spirit, new friends who gradually will help us to find the road to life again, who will walk the road with us. — Joshua Loth Liebman
Idea #4: Welcome your tears
We need never be afraid of our tears. — Charles Dickens
What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. — Jewish proverb
Tears water our growth. — William Shakespeare
Idea #5: You can’t have a beginning without an ending
Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well. — Buddhist saying
Idea #6: If you want love and beauty, you can’t avoid grief and pain
We get no choice. If we love, we grieve. — Thomas Lynch
A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses. — Anonymous
Idea #7: Your grief is unique to you
Our grief is as individual as our lives. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Idea #8: The power of listening
Honest listening is one of the best medicines we can offer the dying and the bereaved. — Jean Cameron
Idea #9: Beautiful people don’t just happen
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Idea #10: Grief never entirely ends
You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be. — Nigella Lawson
Grief never ends…but it changes. It’s a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith. It is the price of love. — Author Unknown
Reflection Questions
What idea served as a valuable reminder?
What new idea jumped out at you?
