title: Sorrows Journey: Words of Comfort to Heal the Grieving Heart
author: Twyla Fisher
description: Twyla Fisher is a firm believer in the power of prayer and mindfulness. She created and taught a meditation course on healing the body, mind, and spirit. She is currently retired in Northern California and enjoys writing, reading, and traveling.
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  Dark Isle
  
  
  The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them
  into the impossible.
  
  
  Arthur C. Clarke
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
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  I had never felt such a yawning chasm of despair as the one that opened within
  me while sitting in that helicopter as it flew us away from Ashling. My
  sister, the one person I loved better than any other, had just been left
  behind. The only thing I had to combat the depression that threatened to roll
  me under its tide of pain, was anger. Anger at myself, Luke, my mother; all of
  us were, in some way, responsible for not getting Ashling out. My heart
  gripped that anger for all it was worth and held on; I let the fury burn away
  the pain in my soul.
  
  
  “You know, perhaps I could come with you to Ireland. I mean, after all, this
  whole debacle has interrupted my vacation there,” Mom said. As she spoke, I
  knew I’d never call her that again; from then on, she’d be Darcy to me.
  
  
  Luke answ