Theo's Christmas Stocking: Selah: Pausing to Give and to Grieve

Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Selah: Pausing to Give and to Grieve

One of the nearest and dearest things to my heart is the MISS Foundation and the Selah House Respite Center and Carefarm. We did a fundraiser for the Carefarm on Giving Tuesday this year and gave again to the building fund on another occasion this season. And then yesterday we got a beautiful post card in the mail telling us a donation to Selah was made in Theo's memory from a loving friend.

Please read this wonderful article that just came out today and if you are so moved share it with grieving people you may know, and if you are looking for a cause, this one is beyond worthy. It is so needed.

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Our Stocking for Theo

Please join us this season in committing acts of kindness for others, not only in honor of our son Theo, but in memory and honor of your own beloved ones as well. Remembering and honoring those we love who have died should be part of the everyday lives of the living. This is how they go on. It is also how we continue our relationships with them. The holiday season, traditionally a time of giving, provides us so many opportunities to do this.

Sometime between now and Christmas, commit a random act of kindness. It doesn't have to involve money. You can send your kindnesses to Karla at karlamarie@verizon.net, or for Jamie's colleagues and students, to his VCU email account, s2jafueg@vcu.edu. You can also leave a comments directly on the blog with your kindnesses if you like. You can also send a Facebook message to Karla. I will check my requests and inboxes.

We will post your stories of kindness, and your photos, here in Theo's Stocking so that we can all share in the Spirit of Giving and Kindness.

Quotes

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Normal is someone you don’t know very well.
Anonymous

What we have once enjoyed and deeply loved, we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Helen Keller

When you are going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill

Grief is like manure, if you spread it out it fertilizes, if you leave it in a big pile it smells like crap.
Tom Golden, LCSW

Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.
C.S. Lewis

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein

Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.
Richard von Weizsaecker

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

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to remain silent.
Edmund Burke

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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 conventional explanation, that God sends us the burden because He knows we are strong enough to handle it, has it all wrong. Fate, not God, sends us the problem. When we try to deal with it, we find out that we are not strong. We are weak; we get tired, we get angry, overwhelmed. We begin to wonder how we will ever make it through all the years. But when we reach the limits of our own strength and courage, something unexpected happens. We find reinforcement coming from a source outside of ourselves. And in the knowledge that we are not alone, that God is on our side, we manage to go on.
Rabbi Harold Kushner

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.
Rabindranath Tagore

A traveler can only journey through a dark forest half way before he begins to come out the other side.
Chinese Proverb

The only cure for grief is action.
G.H. Lewes

The risk of love is loss and the price of grief; but the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.
Hilary Stanton Zunin

He that conceals his grief finds no remedy for it.
Turkish Proverb

The Aramaic word for death translates as: not here, present elsewhere.
P.M.H. Atwater Lh. D

Everybody grieves when someone they love dies. But only people who mourn really heal and move on to live and fully love again….It’s powerful and it’s the only thing that works.
Dr. Alan Wolfelt

Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o’er fraught heart and bids it break.
Shakespeare, Macbeth

We are all vulnerable to the unexplored.
Talmud

We are all in this alone. Together.
Lily Tomlin

Grief makes one hour ten.
Shakespeare, King Richard II

Religion is for people who're afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who've already been there.

Vine Deloria Jr.

When your fear touches someone's pain it becomes pity. When your love touches someone's pain it becomes compassion.

Stephen Levine

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