One is often at a loss of words when comforting someone who has lost a loved one. In reality there are no words which can adequately make the pain go away. As a society we are vastly unprepared for the death of those we hold dear because we live from day to day and we think that day will never come when we lose someone we love much less leave the planet ourselves. Other cultures devote more time to the impermanence of life and expect death as a natural process making it more of an event than a tragedy, but this is our society and we must adhere to it’s conventions until future changes call for adjustments in the way we view death. At Treasure Coast Community Acupuncture which is a low-cost clinic geared towards providing Stuart acupuncture that is affordable, we see a lot of people grieving their loss. This is the first of a series of articles that could assist in your helping someone who has lost a loved one.
This is from the Carmelite Monastery in Tallow, County Waterford, Ireland:
Death is nothing at all – I have slipped away into the next room. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by my old familiar name, speak to me in the easy way which you always used. Laugh as we always laughed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be spoken without effort. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was; there is absolutely unbroken continuity. Why should I be out of your mind because I am out of your sight? I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near just around the corner. All is well. Nothing is past; nothing is lost. One brief moment and all will be as it was before – only better, infinitely happier and forever – we will be one together in Christ.
