I would say to those who mourn... look upon each day that comes as a
challenge, as a test of courage. The pain will come in waves, some days
worse than others, for no apparent reason. Accept the pain. Do not suppress
it. Never attempt to hide grief from yourself. Little by little, just as the
deaf, the blind, the handicapped develop with time an extra sense to balance
disability, so the bereaved, the widowed, will find new strength, new
vision, born of the very pain and loneliness which seems, at first,
impossible to master.
Strength Born of Pain
Daphne Du Maurier,
From "The Rebecca Notebook"
