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Condolences for your losses. One of the cruelest costs of the covid lockdowns has been the denial of customary funerals and memorial services to the survivors, who need and benefit from their healing. May your loved ones rest in peace, and may you all find comfort and hope.
I’m so very sorry, OB. So much loss, so much sadness. May you find comfort in your faith and your loved ones who remain behind.
It seems that with everything else we are going through, we should all catch a break. But alas it isn’t so. My condolences.
Poetry, and just wonderful.
My sincere regrets on your losses.
I am sorry for your losses. That was a beautiful and moving post.
Hear! Hear!
Immortals can experience courage. An immortal still has things that he can lose, like freedom (enjoy eternity encased in rock), relationships (your immortal love never wants to see you again), riches (enjoy your next few decades scrounging in the dirt), reputation (centuries of being hated/mocked), or even civilization (either the world ends or you end up in the depths of the sea)
That’s aside from the nature of immortality, which often allows for suffering without death. Falling into a volcano could become Hell.
I do not cheer death, and I sympathize for the losses you suffered.
Beautiful post.
Hang in there.
Ditto.
That is a lot for one family to bear. I am sorry for all of you, and I will keep you in my prayers.
“Suppose that God gave every man the choice between a world in which there was no suffering, but also no capacity for love, or a world in which suffering remains, but everyone has the power to love. Which do you think mankind would choose? Which would you choose? Quite certainly the power to love, even at the cost of suffering. Now this is precisely what has happened. The thing which makes us able to love is free will, and it is the same thing, free-will, which makes us able to sin. Without it there would be no sin and no love in the world. Suffering is the result of sin . . . God does all he can . . . to change suffering from something that crushes and destroys us into something that exalts and renews us. This is a miracle which could be effected only by absolute love and beside which the creation of the world is pale.” — Caryll Houselander from today’s Magnificat meditation
God bless and comfort you and the entire family.
What heartache- my condolences. Take care of yourselves. I’m thinking of you all.
Sorry to hear this. Prayers will be said . . .