Jessica Mesman Griffith > Quotes

“It is painful to remember what and who we've lost, but it's also comforting. Grief can become its own comfort...the moment when grief itself overtakes the one grieved. When they become one and the same, so that we fear grief's retreat as much as we feared the beloved's passing.”
― Amy Andrews and Jessica Mesman Griffith

“He said that the workings of God can be discerned only in retrospect and that he is always skeptical of people who speculate on God's will for the future, either the future of the world or of an individual life.”
― Amy Andrews and Jessica Mesman Griffith

“I do miss being pregnant. I find sometimes that I'm surprised by the difference between her body and my own -- that when I reach for her hand, I can't feel my touch with her fingers. This often happens when I walk with her in the sling, which must be as close as we can get to the womb. I'll touch her little leg or head and be surprised by the feeling of otherness. Her body is her own now.”
― Amy Andrews and Jessica Mesman Griffith

“We are so dependent on one another for faith. We hold faith communally, but there is no such thing as faith held communally but by no one in particular. There is nothing that completely transcends the individual. It is true that this person or that person may waiver from time to time. But at all times there must be someone holding it up. Jesus chose Peter exactly for this purpose. "You will be my rock," he said. And Peter had to bear faith, believe even when no one else could.”
― Amy Andrews and Jessica Mesman Griffith

“It's an incredible sadness," he said. He was quiet for a few moments before he spoke again. "It's an incredible sadness," he repeated, "but it wasn't for nothing.”
― Amy Andrews and Jessica Mesman Griffith

“Maybe I've had it all wrong, and it's not that I have to love God more than my family but simply come to see that my love of my family - past, present, and future - is a sign of the even greater love of God, which governs all.”
― Jessica Mesman Griffith, Love and Salt: A Spiritual Friendship Shared in Letters

“Why is it that grief feels so much like fear? It seems anything could happen now and will likely happen. God seems inscrutable and hidden. How could we ever understand or know him?”
― Jessica Mesman Griffith, Love and Salt: A Spiritual Friendship Shared in Letters

“Sometimes all I want or need is someone to tell me I'm strong. Somehow it makes me strong just to hear it.”
― Jessica Mesman Griffith, Love and Salt: A Spiritual Friendship Shared in Letters