noturaverage's Journal

For most of us,

death appears as a fixed horizon

and those eho pass over it

leave an emptiness we must fill

with a season of grieving.

And yet, with our sorrow

there is also a knowledge of light,

a certainty that the sense of loss

belongs not to any ending

but to the limitation of our vision.

Death is an experience for those left behind,

not for those who are moving

from one stage of living to another.

It is the Christ who dwells withinn us

who is free to step back and forth

aver the horizon of death,

containing our grief in His Passion

and our knowledge of light

in his transcendence,

showing us that death and resurrection

are the two sides of the one coin.

So while grief goes on, the tears, the hurting,

I know the truth of Jesus Christ

that the hollowness I feel

at the departure of loved ones,

is in reality, the hollowness

of the empty tomb.