A love that lives on
The heat-wave broke and thunder came and at the same time a wave of grief and heart-ache has washed over my extended family. We’ve suffered a particularly difficult and painful loss and the waves connected to it have kept coming and will keep coming for a while still.
I’ve been trying to cope with it the way I cope with most things – by looking for meaning, researching, trying to find more pieces to complete the puzzle. I’ve been crying a lot too.
As I’ve written before – meaning makes a great many things endurable.
I’ve traveled far and wide in my reading. I’ve stretched towards faith, towards the spiritual.
One recent read was written by a medium. It was a comforting, soothing book. If there is a spirit world – this is the Disneyfied version of that reality.
This medium writes:
“The most important thing for a sitter to know is that he or she doesn’t need a psychic medium to communicate with loved ones who have passed. If we open our minds and our hearts, we will begin to see the signs and messages they send for us to feel their presence in our everyday lives.”
Another way of looking at it would be to say that the people we love live on within us. We still have our memories of them and from that both love and a sort of communion can live on.
– Quote from The Light Between Us by Laura Lynne Jackson.
– Photo by Stephanie Klepacki on Unsplash