In facing death we reveal that we are eternal.
Death makes no sense to the human heart. Of course there are the purely emotional and relational bonds that are broken...even a mercy for the suffering. Some of the experienced pain is attributed to these. At the point of letting another go, however, our heart reveals a exceptional irrationality in the parting...irrational according to the rules of the heart...a heart designed for the eternal.
In a purely physical world it makes sense that things come to an end. Everything breaks down. Everything dies. Those are the rules of nature, making space for the new and fueling its delivery with a contribution of matter back into the system. Chemical reactions related to attachment recede having no catalyst. The cycle continues.
In eternity everything lasts forever. Ties between the divine and humanity proceed without end. They are meant to. Love creates, permeates and fuels such life.
I find it interesting how...in this broken world that tends to define and limit according to the physical...our grief reveals an assumed quality of human life that runs deeper than states of matter and chemical reactions. In our deep sorrow we reveal an eternal story written on our hearts. One that exposes our diamond roots...beginnings that say this life should not have ended.
Thankfully, that story beckons to us once more...it can if we will allow it. It calls us back to our first reality beyond what we experience with our senses. One that infuses the Now with the More. One that follows bigger and deeper rules...and offers such hope, peace and joy alongside the grief...promising that all ends are beginnings...that one day we will see each other again...
It makes me wonder...what if we could linger in the truth revealed in death? What if we could hold fast to the notion that life is contained in Life? That my day exists in a Day that has no end? That everything is fuller, deeper...more real...than my physical assumptions ever dreamed possible...
The answer?...We can. The grieving heart reveals it as so.
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