People have told me, 'My dad passed on, but I have great memories of watching your shows with him.' It doesn't get any better than that.
I am certain that the Lord, who notes the fall of a sparrow, looks with compassion upon those who have been called upon to part, even temporarily, from their precious children.
I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
The Bible says that as Christians we don't grieve the same way people do who have no hope of eternity and of Heaven - but we still grieve.
Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.
