And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes;
and their shall be no more death,
neither sorrow or crying,
neither shall there be any more pain:
For the former things are passed away
Rev. 21:4
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In her book After the Darkest Hour the Sun Will Shine Again, Elizabeth Mehren
writes how Samuel Clemens, the great American humorist also known as Mark Twain,
was grief stricken when he suddenly lost his twenty-four year old daughter,
Susy, to meningitis. A master of words, Clemens was unable to articulate his
grief, even eight years after her death. What he said, finally, was that trying
to put his loss into words was futile. To do so, he wrote, "would bankrupt the
vocabulary of all the languages."
When ten years passed, he wrote, "It is one of the mysteries of our nature that
a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunder-stroke like that and live."
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