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Grief and Healing are Timeless

A 2,500-year-old prayer.

More than 25 centuries ago the Greek philosopher Aeschylus wrote these words that seem to reach across time to Sandy Hook.

And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Aeschylus

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