When we lose loved ones it can feel like our worlds have come to an end.  Grief ebbs and flows like waves on a shore, leaving us forever altered but somehow the same.  Our beloveds have left us but are somehow always with us.  We cling to their memory with our feet in the sand hoping that we will meet again.  

What do we do to assuage grief?  

In the words of my dear mother, we gotta ‘keep on living…’

When our love seems to have no place to go, it must find itself in the present.  We gotta keep on living.  We gotta learn how to pour this love into those with whom we remain.   We gotta keep on living.

We mustn’t remain among the tombs.  God has placed souls in our way that will become  welcome receptacles and repositories for the love that feels like it has no place to go. We gotta keep on living.

We can  honor our beloveds by continuing to live and to love.  We continue living as we cling to the gratitude that this love was a gift that we were privileged to receive.  

The poet Tennyson wrote,

“It’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all…”

I offer this addendum:  

It’s better to have loved, because love is never lost.  

Certainly love changes, but it is never lost. 

Love just  finds new ways of expressing itself.

Pardon my rambling this morning, as I work through my own grief at the passing of so many that I held so dearly.  This love that feels sometimes like it has no place to go,  I offer it to you.

Now, pass it on.

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

1 Corinthians 13:7-8

Good Morning, I love you all!

ihs,

just adam