BEREAVEMENT/LOSS OF LOVED ONE/ENCOURAGEMENT

A special calligraphy in memory of a loved one can be a lasting gift to touch hearts. Name, dates (in memory of) may be included. More verses available.

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• Those we hold most dear never truly leave us ... they live on in the kindnesses they showed, the comfort they shared and the love they brought into our lives. Isabel Norton
    
• A life that touches others goes on forever.
   
• Those who live in the Lord never see each other for the last time.
    
• When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.
    
• God has not taken them from us – He has hidden them in His heart that they may be closer to ours.
    
• Life is fragile ... handle with prayer.
    
• CANCER cannot: cripple love, shatter hope, corrode fate, destroy peace, kill friendship; It cannot suppress memories, silence courage, invade the soul, steal eternal life, or conquer the Spirit.
    
• Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.
    
• Out of suffering come the strongest souls. God’s wounded often make his best soldiers.
    
• Faith is not believing that God can, it is knowing that He will.
    
• If your day is hemmed with prayer, it is less likely to unravel.
    
• Do not stand at my grave and weep; I am not here, I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow; I am the diamond glint on snow; I am sunlight on ripened grain; I am the gentle autumn rain. When you awaken in the morning hush, I am the swift uplifting rush of quiet birds in circled flight; I am the soft stars that shine at night. Do not stand at my grave and cry; I am not there, I did not die. (old Indian prayer)
    
• Togetherness Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by my old familiar name; speak to me in the easy way which you always used. Laugh as we always laughed at room at the little jokes we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without effort. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was; there is absolutely unbroken continuity. Why should I be out of your mind because I am out of your sight? I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near just around the corner. All is well. Nothing is lost. One brief moment and all will be as it was before - only better, infinitely happier and forever - We will all be one together with Christ.
    
• God saw you getting tired and a cure was not to be so he put his arms around you and whispered, " Come to Me." With tearful eyes we watched you pass away. Although we love you dearly, we could not make you stay. A golden heart stopped beating, hard-working hands at rest, God broke our hearts to prove to us - He only takes the best.
    
• 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! Helen Steiner Rice
    
• TO ALL PARENTS " I'll lend you for a little time a child of Mine," He said, "for you to love the while she lives and mourn for when she's dead. It may be six or seven years, or twenty-two or three, but will you, until I call her back, take care of her for Me? She'll bring her charms to gladden you, and shall her stay be brief you'll have her lovely memories as solace for your grief. I cannot promise she will stay, since all from earth return, but there are lessons taught down there I want this child to learn. I've looked the wide world over in my search for teachers true and from the throngs that crowd life's lanes I have selected you. Now will you give her all your love, nor think the labor vain? Nor hate me when I come to call to take her back again? I fancied that I heard them say: "dear Lord, Thy will be done! For all the joy this child shall bring, the risk of grief will run. We'll shelter her with tenderness, will love her while we may, and for the happiness we've known forever grateful stay; but shall the angels call for her much sooner than we've planned, we’ll brave the bitter grief that comes and try to understand." Edgar A. Guest
    
• Remember Me to the living, I am gone. To the sorrowful, I will never return. To be angry, I was cheated. But to the happy, I am at peace. And to the faithful, I have never left. I can not be seen, but I can be heard. So as you touch upon a shore, gazing at a beautiful sea ... remember me. Remember in your heart, your thoughts, and your memories of the times we fought, the times we laughed ... for if you always think of me I will never have gone!
    
• Memories keep those we love close to us forever. Hold fast to your memories, to all of the cherished moments of the past, to the blessings and the laughter, the joys and the celebrations, the sorrow and the tears. They all add up to a treasure of fond yesterdays that you shared and spent together, and they keep the one you loved close to you in spirit and thought. The special moments and memories in your life will never change. They will always be in your heart, today and forevermore. Linda E. Knight

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