I am sorry for your loss - and this is so, so beautiful. I lost my dearest friend, Amy, to cancer in May of 2025. I'm so sad that I didn't get to be by her side toward the end (though I was in spirit, as all my offerings of help were met with pleas to pray the Divine Mercy chaplet, which I did). Also, I have to add here a quote by the inimitable Caryll Houselander, which seems apropos: "Actually, it was in the cancer wards of two hospitals that I first realized that God's mercy works in a wonderful way through suffering, and how foolish, though well-intended, men are who think that they are more merciful than God and therefore have a right, perhaps even a duty, to end or prevent life."
In my notes, this quote appears to have come from Rocking Horse Catholic or The Reed of God.
I am sorry for your loss - and this is so, so beautiful. I lost my dearest friend, Amy, to cancer in May of 2025. I'm so sad that I didn't get to be by her side toward the end (though I was in spirit, as all my offerings of help were met with pleas to pray the Divine Mercy chaplet, which I did). Also, I have to add here a quote by the inimitable Caryll Houselander, which seems apropos: "Actually, it was in the cancer wards of two hospitals that I first realized that God's mercy works in a wonderful way through suffering, and how foolish, though well-intended, men are who think that they are more merciful than God and therefore have a right, perhaps even a duty, to end or prevent life."
In my notes, this quote appears to have come from Rocking Horse Catholic or The Reed of God.
God bless you!
Thanks for sharing Melissa. May her soul rest in peace
Thank you.