"When you cry, God cries
with you. But He can't wipe your tears unless you let Him."
~~Monica, An Unexpected
Snow
"You've already been through the darkest place you can
imagine. It's time to start looking for the stars" ~~Monica,
Fear Not!
"You must be strong now. You must never give up. And when
people make you cry, baby, and you're afraid of the dark,
don't forget the light is always there." ~~Tess, In the Name of God
"God can take the saddest things and turn them into
something beautiful." ~~ Monica, Til We Meet Again
"Grieving is a very necessary process." ~~Andrew, The Empty Chair
"I don't believe you can carry on until you have stopped to
cry." ~~Monica
"God will never abandon you. He will
never leave you or forsake you. That's the difference
between God and people. People... sometimes they let
you down but God never will because He loves you perfectly,
unconditionally." ~~Andrew, How Do You Spell Faith?
"You know something... I've been an angel for a long, long
time. And ya know what amazes me about people?
It's not that a few of you can't go on. It's that
almost every one of you does despite this tough business of
living. Ya get up every morning and ya start over
again because there's this little voice inside of you that
says 'hope.' And most of you still listen to it.
And the ones who don't... we have to release and return to
the hands of the Father where hope lives forever." ~~Andrew,
Til Death Do Us Part
"It's okay to admit that you're human and that you're weak.
Remember that's what makes you strong." ~~Liz, Mother's Day
"You put up a wall to block out your pain and your fear. But
a wall works two ways. Yes, it keeps things in, but it also
keeps things out; like joy, trust, hope." ~~Monica, Stealing Hope
"Why do you think God put these things in your heart to say?
He wants you to deal with your pain; He wants you to write
it down; He wants you to let it go." ~~Monica, Stealing Hope
"You just want to stop the pain. But this is not how you do
it; you don't let go-- you hold on!" ~~Monica, Monica's Bad Day
"I'm sorry, please forgive me, because the world *is* a
beautiful place, and there are good and kind people in it.
You just forgot that today. You forgot because something got
in the way of the goodness and the kindness that could have
kept you going." ~~Monica, Monica's Bad Day
"So you see, what was lost *can* be found." ~~Andrew, Monica's Bad Day
"Don't let your heart break--let it change!" ~~Tess, Sins of the Father
"Anyone can give up; it's the easiest thing in the world to
do. But to hold it together when everyone would understand
if you gave up; that's true strength." ~~Flesh and Blood (WAS)
"One of the biggest mistakes we can make is to start
grieving over things that haven't even happened yet." ~~Birthmarks (WAS)
"Sometimes people hurt each other and they don't mean to.
But all it takes is putting your pride away long enough to
talk about it." ~~Monica, The
Perfect Game (I)
"It's good to cry sometimes. It's like giving your soul a
sort of a shower." ~~Monica, The Perfect Game (I)
"Sometimes you come through the darkness back into the
sunlight, and sometimes you come through the darkness into
light itself." ~~Celine Dion, Psalm 151
Monica: Sometimes the end is just the beginning.
Tess: The end usually *is* just the beginning.
(from Unidentified Female)
"It hurts so awfully bad when a beautiful soul is taken away
from us. But it's never really taken away." ~~Tess, Unidentified Female
"Realize that [your loved one] is never too far away.
A part of them will live in you for all time. And
there's a part of you inside them... right now... today."
~~Tess, Flesh and Blood
"Grief is a powerful thing. It's a good thing, a
healing thing. It's a way to let go of a lot of
pain. But it's something to go through, not hold on
to." ~~ Tess, Rock 'N
Roll Dad
"God loves us. I know that now. If you can't
hold onto Him, ask Him to hold onto you." ~~ James, Into the Light
"Where is God? He's right here. Where He's
always been!" ~~Tess, The
Sky is Falling
"It's hard to be someone you're not. Especially when
you can't see how beautiful you all ready are!" ~ Tess, Smokescreen
"God has not left you alone in this and He doesn't want you
judging yourself or anybody else. He wants you to do
what you've been doing... be His child, let him comfort
you. No body can comfort you better than He can right
now." ~~ Tess, Crisis of
Faith
"Nothing's ever really lost!" ~~ Monica, Angel of Death
Monica: Every time one of His children gets hurt, every time
one of His children is sad, or every time one of His
children turns their back on Him-- God suffers, too.
Nathaniel: Why does He let that stuff happen?
Monica: Because He loves us so much He gives us freedom.
(from Amazing Grace, Part
II)
"No one is ever with out an angel when they need one most."
~~Monica, Amazing Grace,
Part II
"Once you give up... you start to die." ~~Andrew, Last Call
"I found myself believing the headlines in the newspaper
believing, like you, that there was nothing ahead for the
world but pain and sadness and disappointment... Yes,
there's pain and sadness here but there's also dreams.
Dreams that you're afraid to dream, lives that you're afraid
to hope for, prayers that you're afraid to pray and it all
seems too late but it's not. God loves you!" ~~Monica,
Last Call
"When we've lost hope, when our hearts are hard and
hopeless, God can soften them and fill them with hope once
more." ~~Monica, Last
Call
"You're not alone. God is here and the fastest car in
the world can't outrun Him and the toughest heart in the
world can't ignore Him because wherever you go God will be
there ahead of you, waiting for you with a miracle."
~~Monica, At Risk
"God doesn't cause pain, God heals! God doesn't hate,
God loves! God doesn't want to see bad things happen
but... they just happen." ~~Phil, Inherit the Wind
“God suffers the pain of His
children but even in pain there is growth.” ~~Monica, Sandcastles
"Nothing's ever lost... not
really." ~~Tess, Charades
"It has to get really dark
before you can see the stars." ~~Monica, It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
"When His children hurt, God weeps. It breaks
His heart. And if God can show His emotions that way,
why can't you?" ~~Monica, Cry and You Cry Alone
"God knows how to take the pain
of His children and turn them into blessings." ~~Tess, The Last Dance
"I know that your heart is broken but God will mend
it if you trust Him with it now." ~~Monica,
The Spirit of Liberty Moon
"God loves all His children and
when they suffer He weeps." ~~Monica,
Miles to Go Before I Sleep
"God loves you... He
knows what you're going through. He watches you going
through it alone when you don't have to. He's the
restorer of souls: a husband to the widow, a father to the
fatherless. He can be your peace and joy right now if
only you let Him." ~~Monica, Vengeance is Mine (aka Saving Grace) Part I
"The heart that He made for you
is precious and He doesn't want to see it get broken." ~~Monica,
What Are Friends For?
"You sacrifice to God your
broken spirit and your broken heart. That is all He
wants you to give Him: everything that hurts and then let
Him restore you." ~~Andrew, I Do
"There were angels with her when she was born, as she
lived, when she died. There are even angels with her
now." ~~Monica, The Medium and the Message
Andrew: In the midst of death
we are in life.
Monica: Of whom shall we seek for succour?
Tess: Only Thee, O Lord, only Thee.
~~from The Anatomy Lesson, adapted from the Book of Common
Prayer
"God loves you and He
wants you to live." ~~Andrew, Til Death Do Us Part
"God is extending His hand to
you, to help you find the courage and the strength to carry
on, to survive this moment and then you move onto the next
one."
~~Andrew, Til Death Do Us
Part
"Nothing is forever gone from
God." ~~Tess, The
Christmas Gift
"God knows you feel pain."
~~Andrew, Restoration
"Sometimes pain is important,
too important to ignore." ~~Monica, God Bless the Child
"It takes a lot of courage to carry on when life is
hard."
~~Monica, God Bless the
Child
"It's hard to believe in
anything when your heart has been so deeply damaged.
God understands that." ~~Monica, The Grudge
"I believe that all things,
even something terrible like what has happened [to Jamal]
can be turned into something for good when people who love
God ask Him to change their circumstances."
~~Monica, Death in the
Family
"Saying good bye begins the
healing because saying good bye makes it real." ~~Monica, I Am An Angel
"You see, God is really good at shining
light in dark places." ~~Ronald, Band of Angels
"He sees the ache in your heart." ~~Monica, The Face of God
"I've seen all sorts of things
happen for no good reason whatsoever but I've also seen God
take things like that and use them to create opportunities
that you could never imagine." ~~Monica, Shallow Water II
"I am an angel... A messenger
from God: the one true God who is love, who created love and
who loves you so much that even in the midst of tragedy,
He's near you and He wants to comfort you." ~~Monica, Manhunt
"Your mind is sick and your body has followed
its direction. But your spirit... your spirit is
safe with God. There's no need to despair for He has
a way to help you." ~~Monica, When Sunny Gets Blue
"There is someone here now
who knows that your heart is broken... It is God
and He sent me to tell you that He loves you very much." ~~Monica, A Winter Carol
"You
have to get the pain out... all of it... if you're going to
heal." ~~Monica, A Winter Carol
"God is strong enough
to bear your grief if you'll give it to Him." ~~Monica, Ship-in-a-Bottle
"God hears you when you call to Him. And He knows what
no one else does. He knows that you cry here alone at
night in this room. He knows the agonizing pain that
you feel." ~Monica, Forever
Young
"And He says... I am strength where you are helpless.
I am peace where there is pain. Let Me wipe away every
tear and hold you." ~~Monica, Forever Young
"All sorts of things get broken in this life... Hearts get
broken. Pieces of rock are broken off from distant
worlds but you can't worry about the myriad things that can
break in the universe. Just remember that God can heal
all of them. God can heal this world in His time."
~~Monica, A Rock and a
Hard Place
"There's a book... the Book of
Life. And God has written your name in that
Book. He has a plan for you. He chose the moment
of your birth. He's chosen the moment of your
death. And if you take that out of His hands then
you're gonna miss the life that He wanted to give you."
~~Andrew, Jump!
"Sometimes letting go is the hardest thing to do." ~~Tess, Remembering Me, Part I
"All we need to know now is
that this, too, shall pass. Perhaps not
tomorrow. Perhaps not for a thousand years but God
will take the weaknesses of this world and use them to make
us stronger." ~~Sam, Remembering
Me, Part I
"Even if we have lost those
that we love, we can mourn them but we must never turn away
from them. We must never let the pain become so great
that we lose our memories, too." ~~Monica, Remembering Me, Part I
"You don't get over it, you just get on with it."
~~George, Inherit the
Wind
"The most ordinary day for some
people is the most extraordinary day for others.
Broken hearts are healed, broken dreams restored, broken
families reunited, and ya never know when your miracle may
arrive on the wings of a dove." ~~Andrew, Private Eyes
"Strength comes from all sorts
of place. You just need to know where to look."
~~Monica, A Time for Every Purpose
"When you fall down, the Father wants to pick you up and
carry you Home. And heal you in His own time, in His
way." ~~Monica, A Time for Every Purpose
"Those are very special tears. God counts every one,
ya know." ~~Alex, At the
End of the Aisle
"Nobody knows better than an angel that there are no real
good byes." ~~Tess, I
Will Walk with You, Part I
"You remember the story of
Easter? Death came on Friday, life on Sunday, but
there was a long, very hard day in between." ~~Monica, I Will Walk with You, Part I
"Tradition is something you hold onto during the bad
times until the good times come back." ~~Michelle, The Peacemaker
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