HUG Corner: Thought for the Week 1/1/18

January 1, 2018

Healing After Loss (Martha Whitmore Hickman)

“It is the nature of grace always to fill spaces that have been empty.”

– Goethe

“Not that we can’t tell the difference. Not that we are being disloyal. But if life gives us something else to do with all those impulses toward the one no longer with us, how can we not be grateful? It’s like an extra inheritance – a blessing, even – from the one we have lost, going to someone else who needs what we have to give. So we are refreshed by the memory of the loved one, and at the same time offering a gift, creating a new relationship.

Keep me on the lookout for someone who needs me now.”

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