THE Lord will in the future wipe away the tears from every eye – but not now. .....
Jesus knew something of the glory he was called to – we simply do not.
We do not know where our loved ones have been taken to and we want them back.
The pain of separation is intense, as it was for Jesus’ friends after they lost him.
We may not forget that the Eucharistic meal that we eat commemorates a departure:
a wrenching, tearful separation.
Your grief is your own, all the days of your life.
Let no one deprive you of it, not even out of love.
Pain is inseparable from love; that is a truth we must live with.
It is a proof of our true inner reality, a judgement of ourselves,
as to how and with what courage we face and accept that truth.
Gerard S Sloyan(1919- )
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