I wanted to share this ...

[Mae]

Hello
I've come on here looking for inspiration for a memorial service I plan each year through my work. This is a quote that I used on the bulletins last year that I'd like to share ...

"Nothing can make up for the absence of someone we love ... we must simply hold out and see it through. That sounds very hard at first, but at the same time it is a great consolation, for the gap, as long as it remains unfilled, preserves the bonds between us. It is nonsense to say that our Creator fills the gap; our Creator doesn't fill it, but on the contrary, he keeps it empty, and so helps us to keep alive our former communion with each other, even at the cost of pain."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, early 20th century Theologian

Mae