Family Matters: March 2014

"Motherhood is a state of both the mind and the heart, a sacred place that is yours no matter the distance between you and your child. Not even Death can take it away." Joanne Cacciatore

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power...they are messengers of unspeakable love." Washington Irving

"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

"The pain passes, but the beauty remains." Pierre Auguste Renoir

"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope." George Eliot

"Children who die young are our greatest teachers." Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"You don't heal from the loss of a loved one because time has passed. You heal because of what you do with that time." Carol Crandall

“They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill that which never dies." William Penn

"The more deeply we love, the more deeply we mourn." Joanne Cacciatore

"Who better to softly bind up the wound of one, than he who has suffered the same wound himself?" Thomas Jefferson

"Whosoever survives the test must tell his story. That is his duty." Elie Wiesel

"Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, 'that my heart has bled." --Edward Young

Family Matters

Thursday, March 27, 2014

St. Patty's Day