Grief Companion

The Bruderhof Community offers a website Grief Companion as a place for those working through grief for a loved one. As the website notes,

Everyone grieves differently. But no one needs to carry grief alone. Whatever loss you are grieving, here you can share your loss with others, and find material that other grieving people have found helpful and comforting. Grieving takes time. Take time to grieve.

One quote at the site is from Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy who wrote

It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, (protecting its sanity), covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But, it is never gone.

For this very real sense of loss, the website offers words of comfort through some quotes, but also in the form of E-books (in .PDF format) with five books on grief online in their entirity.

My mother-in-law also highly recommends On Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross as a book which has been very helpful to her in working through grief.

peace,
Frank+
The Rev. Frank Logue, Pastor + King of Peace Episcopal Church