Quote from W.Graham Scroggie

let grief do its work. tramp every inch of the sorrowful way. drink every drop of the bitter cup. draw from memory and hope all that they can offer. to see the things our loved ones have left behind will give us daily pain - the clothes they wore, the letters they wrote, the books they read, the chairs in which they sat, the music they loved, the hymns they sang, the walks they took, the games they played, their seat in church, and much beside - but what would we be without those reminders? would we like quickly to break with the past in order to ease our grief? those who truly love will say that they have found in sorrow a new joy, a joy which only the broken-hearted can know.

-W.Graham Scroggie, in Billy Graham's book Facing Death