SIBLING
CORNER
Sibling
Credo
We are the surviving
siblings of The Compassionate Friends.
We are brought
together by the deaths of our brothers and sisters.
Open your
hearts to us, but have patience with us.
Sometimes
we will need the support of our friends.
At other times
we need our families to be there.
Sometimes
we must walk alone, taking our memories with us,
continuing
to become the individuals we want to be.
We cannot
be our dead brother or sister;
however, a
special part of them lives on with us.
When our brothers
and sisters died, our lives changed.
We are living
a life very different from what we envisioned,
and we feel
the responsibility to be strong even when we feel weak.
Yet we can
go on because we understand better than many others
the value
of family and the precious gift of life.
Our goal is
not to be the forgotten mourners that we sometimes are,
but to walk
together to face our tomorrows as surviving siblings of
The Compassionate
Friends.
Sibling Forum
Check out the National
Site for Sibling Resources at: www.compassionatefriends.org/tcf_sibling_resources.shtml
