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  • 1.  Memorial Service Readings or Poems

    Posted 02-20-2018 04:52 PM
    ​Hello - Can anyone help me to find the list of Memorial Service poems & readings in the Library that I've seen noted in the discussion thread?  It doesn't appear that you can search the Library by topic (or can you somehow?) and it would take a great deal of time to try to find that amongst the 250 Library items.  Thanks so much for any help!  And if anyone has any favorite poems or readings for a Memorial Service they might want to share, that would be great too! :)

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    Lori Williams, MSW, LISW
    St. Luke's Hospice Duluth, Social Worker/Bereavement Coordinator
    Duluth, MN
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  • 2.  RE: Memorial Service Readings or Poems

    Posted 02-26-2018 07:20 PM

    Hi Lori,

     

    Here is what I found in reaching out to our fabulous support staff at NHPCO:

     

    "Below is how to change the folder view once at the BP library area so you can search for things easier.

     

    How to change folder view:  in the library section there are 2 blank/clear square buttons just to the left of the bright green button in the middle-top right.  Hover over these with your mouse pointer.  You will see a dropdown which reads, "switch to folder view."  Click on that.  You will see a list of the library by sections and topics in folders.  You can explore those areas to find documents contained."  

     

    Hopeful this helps!

     

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    Hospice, Palliative Care and Continuing Care Psychosocial Services Manager

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  • 3.  RE: Memorial Service Readings or Poems

    Posted 02-27-2018 04:21 PM
    ​Here are a few additional ones that you might like:

     

    In one of the stars

    I shall be living.

    In one of them

    I shall be laughing.

    And so it will be…

    When you look

    At the sky at night.

                The Little Prince

                            Antoine de Saint Exupery


    Alchemy

    I lift my heart as spring lifts up

    A yellow daisy to the rain;

    My heart will be a lovely cup

    Altho' it holds but pain.

    For I shall learn from flower and leaf

    That color every drop they hold,

    To change the lifeless wine of grief

    To living gold.

                Sara Teasdale

     "Even the saddest things can become,

    Once we have made peace with them,

    A source of wisdom and strength

    …For the journey that still lies ahead."

                Frederick Buechner

    At every point in the human journey

    We find that we have to let go

    In order to move forward;

    And letting go means dying a little.

    In the process

    We are being created anew,

    Awakened afresh to the

    Source of our being,

                Kathleen R. Fischer

    Ashes to ashes,

    Dust to dust

    Memory to memory,

    Story to story,

    Blessing to blessing,

    Strength to strength,

    Gratitude to gratitude,

    Spirit to spirit,

    Love to love.

    The wheel turns ever,

    And what came out of the earth

    Returns to it now in peace.

                Mark Belletini

    Let us celebrate the power of memory to give us hope,

    Let us pray for the power of memory to help us heal.

    Let us honor the many gifts we were given by our beloved.

    Our challenge is to affirm and celebrate the joy, goodness, and

    Beauty of life!

                Lone I. Jensen

     

    Through places of emptiness and fear.

    Let us pray for courage and perseverance

    As we seek the treasure of our own hidden places,

    May we learn the wisdom of letting go!

                Daniel Dennis

     

    I share with you the agony of your grief, The anguish of your heart finds echo in my own. I know I cannot enter all you feel Nor bear with you the burden of your pain; I can but offer what my love does give: The strength of caring, The warmth of one who seeks to understand The silent storm-swept barrenness of so great a loss, This I do in quiet ways, That on your lonely path

              Howard Thurman



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    Robin Fiorelli LCSW
    Sr. Director of Bereavement and Volunteers
    VITAS
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