We have recently lost a friend. And my grief for this friend makes me want to write and share and plead out to the world, "don't waste your time!" At the same time a loss of life is not something to post as your status update, to Tweet (am I using that correctly? I don't use Twitter), and it's probably not even appropriate to blog about. But we do it anyway because somehow it's easier to do this than it is to talk with someone. Mike and I have talked and talked about this friend of ours and so I do not feel guilt about writing about him now. But to respect privacy I am not going to write details. Instead I have compiled a list of quotes to summarize my feelings.
"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal." ~Irish headstone
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved." ~Helen Keller
"It requires more courage to suffer than to die." ~Napoleon Bonaparte
"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in he soul,
And sings the tune without words,
and never stops at all"
~Emily Dickinson
"Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment."
~ Dag Hammarskjold
"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."
~Harriet Beecher Stowe
"God shall be my hope, my stay, my guide and lantern to my feet." ~William Shakespeare
"And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away." ~Revelation 21:4
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