title: The Comforter: A Journey Through Grief
author:  Doris Sanford 
description: Knowing God is always with you is the message. Wonderful
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  ### Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  
  
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  In her soft-carpeted, thick-curtained, richly furnished chamber, Mrs Marroner
  lay sobbing on the wide, soft bed.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  She sobbed bitterly, chokingly, despairingly; her shoulders heaved and shook
  convulsively; her hands were tight-clenched.
  
  
  She had forgotten her elaborate dress, the more elaborate bedcover; forgotten
  her dignity, her self-control, her pride. In
  
  
  her mind was an overwhelming, unbelievable horror, an immeasurable loss, a
  turbulent, struggling mass of emotion.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  In her reserved, superior, Boston-bred life, she had never dreamed that it
  would be possible for her to feel so many things
  
  
  at once, and with such trampling intensity.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  She tried to cool her feelings into thoughts; to stiffen them into words; to
  control herself — and could not. It brought vaguely
  
  
  to her mind an awful moment in the bre