Melvina Young

"Their light shines still from a farther heaven."

- Melvina Young

"Free at last to fly home—now in a place of peace and love."

- Melvina Young

"Faith tells us that it may be the end of something beautiful…but it’s also the beginning of something glorious."

- Melvina Young

"Mourning with you, praying for you, and rejoicing that a beloved soul is now at peace."

- Melvina Young

"Love will lift you up from under the waves of loss."

- Melvina Young

"We are here, like flowers, for a season. But love, like mountains, lasts for all time."

- Melvina Young

"Our souls, like the sea, move from one shore to the next to find new places of beauty."

- Melvina Young

"No matter how small you were, when Dad said, 'I love you,' you’d feel bigger than the sky."

- Melvina Young

"And so God created dads so that there would forever be bedtime-story-readers and cover-tuckers, shoulder-carriers at parades and star-pointers on clear nights, bike-riding coaches and driving instructors, love-providers and proud protectors. And He saw that it was good."

- Melvina Young

"No matter how small you were, when Dad said, “I love you,” you’d feel bigger than the sky."

- Melvina Young

"Dad hugs are strong hugs that can say so many things, like I9ve got you. I9m always right here. And I9ll always love you."

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"There’s nothing sweeter than being with Grandma."

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"There are women who love you as if they brought you here themselves. They are mothers of the spirit, protectors of the heart."

- Melvina Young

"The heavenly distance between us now does not change the power of our love."

- Melvina Young

"Tears don’t measure weakness. They measure our need to grieve and keep loving the one we’ve lost."

- Melvina Young

"Even on dark days we can look to light spaces in the clouds and know the sun is still there."

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"You taught me that smart is beautiful."

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"Sadness takes its own time. It can’t be hurried along. It can’t be rushed. It moves heavily across the landscape of the heart until time and love can carry it further into the distance."

- Melvina Young

"There is no timeline for grief, no template for healing, no guideposts to follow. There is only our heart letting us know when we’re ready to heal in our own way and time."

- Melvina Young

"There is no “normal” way to grieve. Except for how we each do it."

- Melvina Young

"Lost in the wilderness of grief, we seek our own paths to healing."

- Melvina Young

"We’re each other’s people."

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"A strong father means a strong family."

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"A man who helps others hold on, hold together, hold strong also holds the trust and respect of those he loves."

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"The thing about strength is that when you’re running a little low, you can tap a friend for a refill."

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"Like flowers pressed between the pages of a book, beautiful memories are ours to keep."

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"A man’s real wealth is in his children…for they have spent all of the other kind."

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"Some men are fathers because they stepped in and stepped up exactly when they were needed."

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"He holds the hand you can’t touch. He gently kisses the face you can’t see. He fills the heart that knows it’s never alone because love is always, always there."

- Melvina Young

"Mamas are proof that God is good."

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"The angels are singing welcome, and the ancestors are shouting joy that a beautiful soul has come home to perfect peace and love."

- Melvina Young

"They are forever at peace in the presence of the Father and joined in joy with the ancestors."

- Melvina Young