Poems, Prayers and Quotes

Family Comment:

"After having to use hospice for the first time in our family's lives, we all have nothing but praise for you and those involved. We recommend hospice to many now."

Only those who avoid love can avoid grief. The point is to learn from grief and remain vulnerable to love.
--John Brantner

When a person is born we rejoice, and when they're married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.
--Margaret Mead

Death lies on her like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of the field.
--William Shakespeare

The hardest part of faith is the last hour.
--David Wilkerson

The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath.
--The Talmud

No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee."
-- John Donne (1572-1631) , English metaphysical poet

Psalm 34:18
“The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit”

When I Must Leave You

When I must leave you for a little while
Please do not grieve and shed wild tears
And hug your sorrow to you through the years.
But start out bravely with a gallant smile;
And for my sake and in my name
Live on and do all things the same,
Feed not your loneliness on empty days,
But fill each waking hour in useful ways,
Reach out your hand in comfort and in cheer
And I in turn will comfort you And hold you near;
And never, never be afraid to die,
For I am waiting for you in the sky!

-- Anonymous