grieve

It is the capacity to feel consuming grief and pain and despair that also allows me to embrace love and joy and beauty with my whole heart. I must let it all in.

You can__ truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really FEEL the loss.

In trying moments, you must keep trying... In grieving times, don't think of giving up! Employ your passion to work; something great to enjoy is approaching!

Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away.

What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve about.

Maybe that's what writers do-Maybe they exaggerate pain just so that you feel okay about what you're feeling.

You need to keep hurting until you realise you never needed to hurt in the first place.

The earth grieves, and I grieve, and I am weary of the fight

To ease a grieving heart is the world's greatest pleasure, more so, when the heart is yours.

There is nothing to fear. Nothing to worry about. Grieve nothing in this transitory world," he says softly.

Had life not given me reasons to grieve, I would never have known the healing power of a hug.

We need to eliminate the concept of division by class, skills, race, income, religion, and nationality. Every human requires food and water to survive and every human has a heart that bleeds, loves, and grieves.

Only the broken heart has the ghost of a chance to grieve, to forgive, to long, to transform." Christina Baldwin, author of Life's Companion, Journal Writing as a Spiritual Practice, 1990. Used with author's permission

There__ no magical healing in this. I won__ wake up tomorrow fixed and joyful. I__l still hurt and grieve. But moments like this, with Colton? They make it all bearable. He doesn't fix me, doesn't heal me. He just makes life worthwhile. He helps me remember to breathe, shows me how to smile again. He kisses me, and I can forget pain, forget the urges I still have to cut for the pain that erases the emotions.

God does not require a perfect, sinless life to have fellowship with Him, but He does require that we be serious about holiness, that we grieve over sin in our lives instead of justifying it, and that we earnestly pursue holiness as a way of life.

Do not grieve when something good ends, be glad that it happened.

To maintain an ignorance of oneself, is to grieve for the absolution of life.