Update: also check out Friday's entry, On the other side.
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The situation is reminding me of this passage from Science and Health:
A blundering despatch, mistakenly announcing the death of a friend, occasions the same grief that the friend's real death would bring. You think that your anguish is occasioned by your loss. Another despatch, correcting the mistake, heals your grief, and you learn that your suffering was merely the result of your belief.
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I also happened to get a phone call last night from an acquaintance in
After we shared some appreciation for our friend, for his joviality and friendliness and his sense of service, I said, “Well, our dear friend now knows something we don’t. He knows that death isn’t real. We believe it, he knows it. And I’m convinced that we’ll see him again when we get to the other side.”
Our friend was apparently close to the caller’s parents who have also passed, so we thought of them all together again, chatting it up in the next dimension.
I do believe there is progress and companionship after the grave. I believe my friend has found it, I believe the miners have found it. There is comfort there, and joy. God bless them on all their journey—it hasn’t ended, but continues beyond our sight.
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Dear Laura,
ReplyDeleteI just wish to add to your comforting comments the following from White Eagle's book "Sunrise:"
“We tell you with tenderness that you bring much of your suffering upon yourselves. You will ask how we can say this when, for instance, your hearts are sore through bereavement. No, of course you did not bring bereavement upon yourself - only the suffering which resulted from your attitude of mind. For if you have developed power to penetrate the mists of earthliness, you would have known that your dear one was not dead or far away. Communion of soul with soul is always waiting for the man or woman who can develop, within, a consciousness of the oneness of all life. Learn to so love God that you know that God, being all love, and having all love for you, has in Him-Her no death, but only more abundant life. Your loved one dwells within that Love, and also within your own spirit. Your loved one is therefore with you, not lost, not gone far away."
Love and peace, Veronika
Laura:
ReplyDeleteI appreciated your posting and I also thought about the Science and Health reference that you quoted when I heard the news. The news report doesn't change the spiritual fact regarding our loved ones that their life is eternal and continous.
I also thought that the Christian Science article (Is Hope a Cheat?) in the 1/6/05 issue of the Christian Science Monitor offered an insightful and loving explanation of this spiritual truth. It also gave me a better appreciation of the Jonah healing!
In gratitude -
-Diane, Pennsylvania
The Monitor article was actually published last Friday - 1/6/06 (not 2005) - forgot to update the year!
ReplyDeleteThanks again -
-Diane