24 tcf.org.uk COMPASSION | SNIPPETS TO SAVE Snippets to Save “Christmas! - if you are recently bereaved and going through a tough time, you will long for the whole thing to be over. It’s not fun for everyone, something that is easy for others to forget. Thank you to those of you who have sent in your Snippets. Please keep them coming, as the words that help you, will most likely help others too. “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing. At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me.” CS Lewis “When you experience loss, people say you’ll move through the 5 stages of grief… Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance… What they don’t tell you is that you’ll cycle through them all every day.” Ranata Suzuki “Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark” George Iles The year we lost our son, we received a Christmas card exhorting us to have ‘The Best Christmas Ever! – that went straight into the bin. Had they really forgotten attending his funeral in August that year?! If you can bear to send Christmas cards, that becomes a minefield as there is the decision to make about whether to include your child’s name, or not. I think I got round that one by just putting a J with a heart underneath”. Anon
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