July 15, 2019
Healing After Loss (Martha Whitmore Hickman) “My wife of 57 years was buried today beside our son, who died in 1941 as a result of a truck accident when he […]
July 8, 2019
Healing After Loss (Martha Whitmore Hickman) “Many promising reconciliations have broken down because, while both parties came prepared to forgie, neither party came prepared to be forgiven.” – Charles Williams Sometimes […]
June 24, 2019
Healing After Loss (Martha Whitmore Hickman) “Pain-has an Element of Blank-It cannot recollectWhen it began-or if there wereA time when it was not-” – Emily Dickinson When we are suffering intense […]
June 17, 2019
Healing After Loss (Martha Whitmore Hickman) “Feeling light within, I walk” – Navajo Night Chant Each of us carries a light within, though often it seems shrouded in darkness. But it […]
June 3, 2019
Healing After Loss (Martha Whitmore Hickman) “Definite work is not always that which is cut and squared for us, but that which comes as a claim upon the conscience, whether […]
May 27, 2019
Healing After Loss (Martha Whitmore Hickman) “Faith is the centerpiece of a connected life. It allows us to live by the grace of invisible strands. It is a belief in […]
May 20, 2019
Healing After Loss (Martha Whitmore Hickman) “When we start at the center of ourselves, we discover something worthwhile extending toward the periphery of the circle. We find again some of […]
May 13, 2019
Healing After Loss (Martha Whitmore Hickman) “Nothing could stop you.Not the best day. Not the quiet. Not the ocean rocking.You went on with your dying.” -Marie Strand How they went […]
May 6, 2019
Healing After Loss (Martha Whitmore Hickman) “She sat there and began to learn patience, staring at the floor, where a dusty track from the door of the sitting-room to the […]
April 29, 2019
Healing After Loss (Martha Whitmore Hickman) Often it is easiest to see the stars in the long, cold nights of winter. People who have come through any kind of life-threatening […]