Debra Isert,
Palliative Care Coordinator, [780] 523-6438.

* A butterfly lights beside us like a sunbeam. And for a brief moment its glory and beauty belong to our world. But then it flies on again. And though we wish it could have stayed, we feel so lucky to have seen it. [Unknown]

* Hold onto hope! Some days you just seem to exist, but better days will be back. You will develop a renewed sense of purpose gradually. [Unknown]

* Life was given by God, in a great big box with a wonderful ribbon on it. What we expect in there is joy, peace, contentment, and an abundance of love. But we also find in that life, pain, despair and loneliness. They are all part of the same box called life. It’s not until you dive into it and experience all of it that you will really know life. We learn from pain just as much as we learn from joy. [Leo Buscaglia]

* In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all. It comes with bitterest agony. [Perfect] relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better. And yet this is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again. To know this, which is certainly true, will make you feel less miserable now. [Abraham Lincoln]

* Tears have a language all their own, a tongue that needs no interpreter. In some mysterious way, our complex inner-communication system knows when to admit its verbal limitations, and the tears come. Tears are not self-conscious. They can spring upon us when we are speaking in public, or standing beside others who look to us for strength. Most often they appear when our soul is overwhelmed with feelings that words cannot describe. [Chuck Swindoll]