Sometimes when a person dies you learn things about them…even people who didn’t know them learn things. Elizabeth Edwards died the other day in the US. The wife of American politician Jonathan Edwards went through a lot in her life – the death of her teenage son, the breakup of her marriage, and the cancer that would eventually take her life.

I greatly appreciate this quote I heard this morning from her:

“Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you’ve lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that’s good.” – Elizabeth Edwards