Merry Christmas! Patron Livestream!
Added 2023-12-24 23:32:32 +0000 UTCChristmas is traditionally a time for ghost stories... today, I share an advanced practice for connecting with and ushering loved ones through to the other side. I hope you find this useful. Blessings be!!
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Thanks so much for inviting us into this space. I am literally putting together the funeral program for a beloved, gentle soul who left our congregation a week ago. I got the sense that he knew he was leaving the last time we saw him the week previous. We had just put him on the program to read on Christmas Eve, remarking that he looked so much better the previous week than he had in a long time. We walked down the hallway after that decision and were informed that he had died. We talked about how people sometimes choose the moment of leaving quite carefully--if not consciously. During the reflection, I remembered how my father sat next to me and placed a hand on my knee in the Baltimore train station the moment he relinquished his body several hundreds of miles away on his deathbed. I was surprised. I remember almost saying out loud, "What are you doing here?" And he said something to the effect of, "All will be well." What a strange series of journeys we are on that we know so little about! And then there is the grieving. Now, my father told me all would be well--I imagine I could have believed him. But some human part of me needed to go through the grief as if he were no more, anyway. Such complex journeys. Please know you are in my heart in both your awareness of the continuity of life and the awareness of your very deep sense of deprivation and grief. I honor both for you at this time.
Jon Carl Lewis
2023-12-26 20:02:02 +0000 UTCAmen, brother!
Kae Strouse
2023-12-24 23:50:05 +0000 UTCI lost my father on Christmas Eve when I was 9 years old and he's been my Chrismas Angel ever since. So your father when it's time like your grandmother will always be with you. Just call on them like I did.
Elk Whistle
2023-12-24 23:49:30 +0000 UTC
