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Grief and Alexa’s Feature of Mimicking Your Deceased Loved One’s Voice There’s something about grief that changes us. It changes the way that we see life. It changes not only how we view the future but how we look back at the past. Sometimes grief makes us look at the past with regret. Sometimes we become trapped in our memories that we never want to move on with life anymore. But what if you can hear your deceased loved one’s voice again? What if you can somehow talk to a voice that resembles that of the person you lost? Will this possibility help you heal and process your grief? Or will this only let your wounds linger, breaking your heart just a little longer until you could no longer stand the pain of your loss? Alexa’s New Feature An article from CNN recently reported how Amazon’s Alexa will soon have the feature of mimicking our deceased loved ones’ voices. For those who have lost their mother, father or any close family member or special someone, they can soon hear them again...

In her book, “On Death and Dying” , Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross presented a model of the 5 grief stages when people are faced with their own mortality. Through the years, this model had been used to also help other people facing various kinds of grief. Among this grief is when a person has lost or is about to lose a loved one. If you are facing the loss of someone you love, these stages may help you to better understand the kind of emotional state you are going through. It should be noted, however, that while these 5 grief stages describe the common experiences of people who undergo the grieving process, they do not strictly occur in the order presented. Further, some stages may overlap or may even be completely missing in one’s personal experience. It all depends upon the unique experience of a person in the face of losing a very important person in one’s life. Not every person has the same memory nor the same set of circumstances. One may have a stronger support system while anothe...

Heaven Quotes  Do you have a loved one who has passed away? Have you ever wondered what heaven would be like? Here are some heaven quotes from the saints that can inspire you today: “Today I was in heaven, in spirit, and I saw its inconceivable beauties and the happiness that awaits us after death. I saw how all creatures give ceaseless praise and glory to God. I saw how great is happiness in God, which spreads to all creatures, making them happy…” – St. Faustina “Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.” – St. Thomas More “The form under which the Heavenly Jerusalem is generally represented in my visions is that of a beautiful and well-regulated city, and the different degrees of glory to which the elect are raised are demonstrated by the magnificence of their palaces, or the wonderful fruit and flowers with which the gardens are embellished…” – Blessed Catherine Emmerich “The Cherubim were placed at the gate of the earthly paradise with their flaming sword, to t...

What Should You Look Forward To In Heaven? Free Download - click here Most people have a very clear idea of hell but a very vague concept of heaven. We have no trouble thinking about something that terrifies us, but we find it almost impossible to imagine something that will give us true happiness and peace. Is heaven some boring place you go to after your life on earth is over? Is it a generic thing that could hardly speak to your heart’s innermost desires? But how could it be paradise if it could not even match the happiness we find in our earthly lives? Look at the world we’re living in. Isn’t there such an abundance of light, beauty and wonder? How much more then the one that’s meant to be eternal and beyond all thoughts and imaginings! Discover more about heaven when you download this book.  Find out what it is we should all be looking forward to in heaven! Free Download - click here

The unbelievable substance that keeps the order of the worlds These days, when faith and science just seem to be too incompatible with each other, I’d like to tackle a very important topic about the origin of the universe. While most Christians would agree that it is God who made everything that ever began to exist, we live in a culture that seems to mock that belief in the name of science. But what is science? If we try to simplify things, science is a search for truth. And I think that no Christian would ever be against that. God is Truth itself. And in the light of that, I believe that faith and science should not be incompatible things. The First Cause It is natural to think that the existence of anything that ever began to exist depends upon something else. “To do away with a supreme cause is to claim that, as someone has said, ‘A brush will paint by itself provided it has a very long handle.’”—Reginald Garrigou LaGrange Christians believe that the ultimate cause of everything is...

Grief can be so overwhelming that we often it hard to understand what it really means. How would our lives be changed when we’re grieving? Could we ever go back to the time before our loved one’s death? Grief quotes can sometimes help us connect with other people who went through the process of grieving and losing the ones they loved the most. Through quotes and other excerpts, we somehow feel that we’re not alone. In an indirect way, they also give us hope. Below are some of the quotes that can give you comfort when you are coping with grief. May you find in them some words of wisdom and consolation while dealing with the hard times. And may you face each day with courage knowing that for every day that you live, you carry your loved ones also within your heart. Grief Quotes for sharing: “What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” — Helen Keller “In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your g...

There is a kind of beauty that can only be found when you weep I used to think that in order to be beautiful, I had to be the happy type of person — the girl who always had a big smile on her face, the one who can always cheer other people and lighten everyone’s mood. Unfortunately, I’m a melancholic type of person. Somehow, I felt I’ve always carried some sort of sadness in me that could never be fully erased no matter how I tried to behave differently. For a long time I felt as though unless I changed who I am, I could never be beautiful. People gravitate towards those who can make them laugh, people who can make them forget their troubles. I, on the other hand, am the boring one, the quiet one. Who’d ever want to know someone like me? Through the years, however, I’ve realized how wrong I was. It isn’t only laughter that can bind people. It isn’t only the fun times that we can offer to those whom we love. People can also come to us because we are capable of listening to them. People ...