REMEMBERING YOUR LOVED ONE

Sometimes our deepest feelings are the hardest to express.

When words cannot express or when there are no words -

know that the silences are carrying the thoughts and prayers

of the many who love and care about you.

Thinking of you with sympathy for your loss.

Inside left panel Scripture: 

The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.  Psalms 34:18

Back Panel features a beautiful quote from Dietrich Bonhoeffer: 

There is nothing that can replace the absence of someone dear to us, and one should not even attempt to do so. One must simply hold out and endure it. At first that sounds very hard, but at the same time it is also a great comfort. For to the extent the emptiness truly remains unfilled one remains connected to the other person through it. It is wrong to say that God fills the emptiness. God in no way fills it but much more leaves it precisely unfilled and thus helps us preserve -- even in pain -- the authentic relationship. Furthermore, the more beautiful and full the remembrances, the more difficult the separation. But gratitude transforms the torment of memory into silent joy. One bears what was lovely in the past not as a thorn but as a precious gift deep within, a hidden treasure of which one can always be certain.