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Our Credo
We need not walk alone.
We are
The Compassionate Friends.
We reach out to each other with love,
with understanding, and with hope.
Our children
have died at all ages
and from many different causes,
but our love for our children unites us.
Your pain becomes
my pain
just as your hope becomes my hope.
We come together from all walks of life,
from many different
circumstances.
We are a unique family because we represent
many races and creeds.
We are young, and we
are old.
Some of us are far along in our grief,
but others still feel a grief
so fresh and so intensely painful
that
we feel helpless and see no hope.
Some of us have found our faith
to be a source of strength;
some of us are
struggling to find answers.
Some of us are angry, filled with guilt,
or in deep depression;
others radiate
an inner peace.
But whatever pain we bring to this gathering
of The Compassionate Friends,
it is pain we will
share,
just as we share with each other
our love for our children.
We are all seeking and struggling
to
build a future for ourselves, but we are
committed to building that future together,
as we reach out to each
other in love
and share the pain as well as the joy,
share the anger as well as the peace,
share the faith
as well as the doubts,
and help each other to grieve as well as to grow.
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