Death

     So many people imagine that death cruelly separates us from our loved  ones. When our loved ones die, they do not leave us, they remain.  They do not go to some dark and distant place. They simply begin their eternity. We do not see them because we are still in the darkness of this world. But their spiritual eyes, filled with  the light of heaven are always watching us as they wait for the day when we will share their perfect joy.

     We are born for heaven and one by one  we end this life of tears to begin our life in happiness. I have often reflected upon this beautiful truth and found it the greatest and  surest comfort in time of mourning. A firm faith in the real and continual presence of our loved ones has brought the conviction and  consolation that death has not destroyed them, nor carried them away.  Rather it has given them life! A life with power to know fully and to love perfectly. With this new life and new  power our loved ones are always present to us, knowing us and loving us more then ever before.

     The tears that dampen our eyes in times of mourning are tears of homesickness, tears of longing for our loved ones. But it is we who are away from home, not they. Death has been for them a doorway  to an eternal home. And only because this heavenly home is invisible  to our worldly eyes, we cannot see them so near us. Yet, they are with us, lovingly and tenderly waiting for the day when we, too, will enter the doorway of our eternal home. 

     No, death is not a separation really: It is a preparation for eternal union with those we love, in the peace and joy of heaven.

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