Oh, The Comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person.

Having neither to weigh thoughts, 

Nor measure words - but pouring them

All right out - just as they are - 

Chaff and grain together -

Certain that a faithful hand will

Take and sift them -

Keep what is worth keeping -

And with the breath of kindness

Blow the rest away.

- Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Thanks for the tears,

But let's remember the laughter, smiles, and cheer.

Those good times when things went right with loved ones near. 

Remember how we've laughed, and sung, and prayed.

And told bad times to go away,

when sad things were displayed.

Remember how we've conquered fears and odds beyond compare,

And reached new heights of strength and hope when we would only dare.

Thanks for missing me.

But please don't do it long- 

For I'll be around if only in your thoughts.

I may visit you in song, on in something I have taught, by word, or story, smile or touch.

Make your life the very best for you deserve as much.

I've lived a full completed life, with little to complain.

My prayer for you, is that yours will be the same.

So life's not easy.

Did someone say it was? Did someone tell us wrong?

Did muscles grow by idle use to make them firm and strong?

Or have they grown from skillful use to make us move with grace,

Through life's harsh maze, to help us win the race?

You've learned.

You're a Victor.

You've conquered many a foe, and I pray to be around, when G-d shall tell you so!

- Unknown

Death is not the end; it is only a new beginning.

Death is not the master of the house;

he is only the porter at the King's lodge,

appointed to open the gate and let in the King's guests into the realm of eternal day.

And so shall we ever be with the Lord.

And so the range of three score years and ten is not the limit of our life.

Our life is not a landlocked lake enclosed within the shore lines of seventy years.

It is an arm of the sea, and where the shore line seems to meet in old age, they open out into the infinite.

And so we must build for those larger waters.

We must lay our life plans on the scale of the infinite, not as though we were only pilgrims in time, but as children of eternity!

We are immortal!

How, then, shall we live today in prospect of the eternal morrow.

- John Henry Jowett 

When the landscape darkness and the trembling pilgrim comes to the Valley of the Shadow, eh is not afraid to enter; he takes the rod and the staff of Scripture in his hand; he says to a friend and comrade, "Good-bye; we shall meet again;" and comforted by that support, he goes toward the lonely pass as one who walks through darkness into the light.

- Henry Van Dyke

Death is not extinguishing the light;

it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

- Sir Rabindranath Tagore