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“It’s as though my tender-hearted heavenly Father had shielded me from this gruesome scene, just as a loving parent would put their hand over a child’s eyes and say, “Dearie, you don’t need to see what’s happening right now. Let’s close your eyes.”
― Rosemary Thornton, Remembering The Light: How Dying Saved My Life

“Josh Billings”
― Rosemary Thornton, Remembering The Light: How Dying Saved My Life

“it looked as if we were all connected by my husband’s suicide, it was in fact love which connected us.”
― Rosemary Thornton, Remembering The Light: How Dying Saved My Life

“Then I’d scroll to the comments, and read the names of every blog reader who had promised to pray for me. Sometimes, I’d read their comments out loud. Lying in that bed, I pictured myself as a big sponge, enthusiastically absorbing all the love and peace and joy and light that these prayers were sending out in my direction.”
― Rosemary Thornton, Remembering The Light: How Dying Saved My Life

“I’ve always said that people who claim “you can’t buy love,” have never purchased a dog. You most certainly can buy love, whether it’s a shelter pet, a rescue dog or a pure-bred Sheltie.”
― Rosemary Thornton, Remembering The Light: How Dying Saved My Life

“I asked the angels and was told that the threat of death had passed, and there was nothing to worry about, and God was still in perfect control.”
― Rosemary Thornton, Remembering The Light: How Dying Saved My Life

“she told me that it was okay to be sensitive but that this world wasn’t kind to people like me.”
― Rosemary Thornton, Remembering The Light: How Dying Saved My Life

“The soonest available appointment was three weeks out. That’s almost unbelievable in a first-world country.”
― Rosemary Thornton, Remembering The Light: How Dying Saved My Life

“It’s never too late to be what you might have been.”
― Rosemary Thornton, Remembering The Light: How Dying Saved My Life

“For the ambulance ride, the nasal cannula had been replaced with an oxygen mask, and throughout this ride, the angels (now I sensed more than one) kept telling me funny stories. I don’t remember what was said, but I remember laughing out loud repeatedly under that mask. And I told them, “Y’all are a stitch. You crack me up.”
― Rosemary Thornton, Remembering The Light: How Dying Saved My Life

“I understood their meaning.”
― Rosemary Thornton, Remembering The Light: How Dying Saved My Life

“We don’t heal in isolation. We just get worse.”
― Rosemary Thornton, Remembering The Light: How Dying Saved My Life

“I’d been lost in the dark, in the deepest pits of hell, and God met me where I was, and showed me the way back to the light.”
― Rosemary Thornton, Remembering The Light: How Dying Saved My Life

“my view of this world had been transformed from horrible to hallowed.”
― Rosemary Thornton, Remembering The Light: How Dying Saved My Life

“one human being is not, and can never be, responsible for another human being’s decision to end their own life.”
― Rosemary Thornton, Remembering The Light: How Dying Saved My Life

“Teddy relied on feelings more than words, and she knew that I wanted out of this life. She knew what was really going on.”
― Rosemary Thornton, Remembering The Light: How Dying Saved My Life

“The human mind doesn’t change like that on its own. We don’t like change, and our brains need time to re-wire themselves for change;”
― Rosemary Thornton, Remembering The Light: How Dying Saved My Life

“I also thought, “My entire life, I have been frightened of dying and I’ve wondered how I would die, and now it is happening and this is great!” I was experiencing the most perfect peace imaginable.”
― Rosemary Thornton, Remembering The Light: How Dying Saved My Life

“Einstein said, “There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Rosemary Thornton, Remembering The Light: How Dying Saved My Life

“For you, it will be 20 years. For your mama and the others, it’ll be less than a moment.”
― Rosemary Thornton, Remembering The Light: How Dying Saved My Life

“Any harsh words – spoken or even read somewhere – made me cringe and caused physical pain.”
― Rosemary Thornton, Remembering The Light: How Dying Saved My Life

“temporary death experience” (or TDE,”
― Rosemary Thornton, Remembering The Light: How Dying Saved My Life

“connected to the divine,”
― Rosemary Thornton, Remembering The Light: How Dying Saved My Life

“I was told that act of loving someone can not harm us, but rather, love is like a river of light that flows through us, purifying lives, hearts, minds, souls, and that it uplifts our spirit, and that loving another person always blesses us, as well as them.”
― Rosemary Thornton, Remembering The Light: How Dying Saved My Life

“I wasn’t schizophrenic. I wasn’t bi-polar. I wasn’t dealing with long-term mental illness. I was a sensitive artistic-type who’d been through severe trauma and needed immediate help.”
― Rosemary Thornton, Remembering The Light: How Dying Saved My Life

“In the midst of this experience, I felt no attachments of any kind whatsoever, and I also felt the most perfect peace I’d ever known.”
― Rosemary Thornton, Remembering The Light: How Dying Saved My Life

“Ebenezer means “stone of help”
― Rosemary Thornton, Remembering The Light: How Dying Saved My Life

“Dear Heavenly Father, this item has brought me so many blessings, and now, I no longer have need of it. Please send me someone who will cherish this item as I have cherished it, and may it bless them as richly as it has blessed me. May this item fulfill a specific need for a specific individual, and may it continue to bless them for many years. Thank you!”
― Rosemary Thornton, Remembering The Light: How Dying Saved My Life

“Floating further and further away from my body, I felt no attachment to my former life, and not one smidge of sadness about what I was leaving behind, because I knew – in that moment – that I was not truly leaving anything behind. I was just moving from one place to another. Just slipping from here to there. This may seem hard to understand, but in that place, there’s not a thought of loss or sorrow or sadness. Not a single thought.”
― Rosemary Thornton, Remembering The Light: How Dying Saved My Life

“what human walking this earth is really worthy of their dog’s unconditional love?”
― Rosemary Thornton, Remembering The Light: How Dying Saved My Life