Just for today, I will try to live through the next 24 hours and not expect to get over my child's death, but instead learn to live with it just one day at a time. Just for today, I will remember my child's life, not her death, and bask in the comfort of all those treasured days and moments we shared. Just for today, I will forgive all the family and friends who didn't help or comfort me the way I needed them to. They truly did not know how. Just for today, I will smile no matter how much I hurt on the inside, for maybe if I smile a litte, my heart will soften and I will begin to heal. Just for today, I will reach out to comfort a relative or friend of my child, for they are hurting too, and perhaps we can comfort each other. Just for today, I will free myself from myself inflicted burden of guilt, for deep in my heart I know if there was anything in this world I could have done to save my child from death, I would have done it. Just for today, I will honor my child's memory by doing something with another child because I know that would have made my own child proud. Just for today, I will offer my hand in friendship to another bereaved parent, for I do know how they feel. Just for today, when my heart feels like breaking; I will stop and remember that grief is the price we pay for loving and the only reason I hurt is because I had the privilege of loving so much. Just for today, I will not compare myself with others, I am fortunate to be who I am and to have had my child for as long as I did. Just for today, I will allow myself to be happy, for I know that I am not deserting her by living on. Just for today, I will accept that I did not die when my child did. My life did go on and I am the only one who can make that life worthwhile once more.