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41. "Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.” — Arthur Schopenhauer. 42. "Many people long for a father's love. I had it.
Genesis 37:34-35 “Then Jacob tore his clothes, put a simple mourning cloth around his waist, and mourned for his son for many days. All of his sons and daughters got up to comfort him, but he ...
Thinking about our own imminent death or the death of a loved one can be scary. But there is hope and comfort in knowing that although death is the ending of life on this earth, eternal life is in ...
We must now part. I shall to another world, and thou shalt be left alone in all my wealth. I pray thee (for thou art my dear child) strive to be a father, and a lord to thy people. Be thou the children's father, and the widow's friend. Comfort thou the poor, and shelter the weak; and, with all thy might, right that which is wrong.
A common reading at funerals and remembrance ceremonies, the poem was introduced to many in the United Kingdom when it was read by the father of a soldier killed by a bomb in Northern Ireland. The soldier's father read the poem on BBC radio in 1995 in remembrance of his son, who had left the poem among his personal effects in an envelope ...
Book I (Day 1) [2]. Comfort in Tribulation (Chapters I-XII) Anthony defines tribulation as grief consisting either of bodily pain or heaviness of the mind. Ancient moral philosophers recommended various remedies for tribulation, but they lacked the most effective source of comfort, faith, which is a gift from God (I-II).
Grieving my dad's unexpected death helped me realize I do want to have children of my own. ... My father's sudden death changed my mind. D.C. Macedo. December 14, 2024 at 3:43 AM.
Such was the popular mood (remember the queues across the bridges near Westminster Abbey) that the words of the poem, so plain as scarcely to be poetic, seemed to strike a chord. Not since Auden's 'Stop All the Clocks' in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral had a piece of funerary verse made such an impression on the nation. In the days ...