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There are things that we don’t want to happen but have to accept, things we don’t want to know but have to learn, and people we can’t live without but have to let go.
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Your post reflects the theme of a recent three day course I attended on Bereavement and Loss. I wish I had seen the quote before I went, it would have been a powerful item on the discussions.
And it’s the ‘and people we can’t live without but have to let go’ that had the biggest impact on me when I came across this quote.
I guess a great number of people will view Bereavement and loss as the death of someone or indeed the death of something.
My personal take on that particular line of the quote is that through situation/s and circumstance/s is that we can suffer Bereavement and Loss through having to let someone go, it could be a friend,therapist, relationship or something wider within the community. yet that loss can be as real and as painful as someone’s death, maybe sometimes it is even harder because qwe know that that person is still in existence but are out of our reach.
I guess this is then one of those times when we cry out to God to see us through and guide us to firmer ground. I have my own saying at the moment at the end of each day ‘Thank you God, my Faith,soul and my sanity are intact.
what a wonderful quote. Thank you.
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For some moments in life there are no words. – David Seltzer, Willy Wonka and the Chocolare Factory.
But, at these times it is a blessing to know where to look…Psalm 121
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help,
My help cometh from the Lord which made heaven and earth,
He will not suffer thy foot to be moved, He that keepth thee will not slumber,
Behold, He that keepth Israel will not slumber or sleep,
The Lord is thy keeper, the Lord is thy keeper, the Lord is thy shade on your right hand,
The sun shalt not smite you by day, nor the moon by night,
The Lord shall protect you from all evil, He shall preserve thee from all evil,
He shall preserve thy soul,
The Lord shall preserve your gpoing out and your coming in, from this time forth and for evermore.