The Mysteries of Life

Are as intricate and

Unknowable as

The deepest sea

Or the furthest star.

Some lives are lived as

A comet speeding

Across the Firmament.

Other saintly lives

Are seemingly insignificant …

Overlooked.

Some lives are

Full of suffering

And struggle –

And some lives seem

To end in failure

Or utter disgrace.

But all these lives are

Precious to us,

And we will inescapably

Face a deep loss

For each of them,

As though the world

Has lost a part

Of itself.

When friends,

When those we love,

Leave their Earthly lives

Suddenly, for a

Special and ordained Journey

We all will one day take,

To and fro from

Realm to realm

We mourn our loss,

We mourn those who mourn …

We can become overwhelmed

In the Pain and Fear

Of a separation

Which does not truly exist,

And grieve

That which one day

Will be made clear –

And at that unnamed time

We will be instead

Lost in a Love and Peace

Now ungraspable and

Unrecognizable,

When the Earthly realm

Gives way to the true r

Vision and Experience

of Eternal Life.

We can feel like a Failure

In our human responses,

And in our feeble efforts

To comfort ourselves and others

In whatever fruitless ways

We can as humans

In endless diversions

And floods of silent tears,

Or words, that pour

From us

Inwardly or outwardly,

Like thin lit candles

Streaming into the night

Bringing our feeble messages

Of unnamable grief

To the world,

Seemingly endlessly

And without Hope

Of comfort or release,

These natural human

Responses of shock

And loss that can then

Bring a transparency

Of being, so very pure -

If we allow it.

The Mysteries of Life

Are as intricate and

Unknowable as

The Divine Trinity Itself.

Sorrow ends only

When we look within

To the Flames of Divine Love

In the spiritual Heart,

When we again meet the soul.

Only then can we

Truly put our Trust

In the Wisdom of God

And in the Wisdom of the soul,

And truly Trust the Divine Order

Which forever surrounds

And Guides us.

Eternal Father

Send your Holy Angels

And your saints to Earth

Each day until the end of Time

To guide, protect, heal, comfort

And illumine us.

Eternal Rest grant unto them

O Lord, and let perpetual Light

Shine upon them.

May they rest in Peace

Especially our dear Niel .

Amen