MOURNING...WITH HOPE IN OUR HEART

To mourn is to speak that truth to the lies that prop up the denial on which the status quo depends.….Mourning together, in true solidarity, we name the truth of what’s wrong. And in so doing, we begin to make it right. -- Ecologist and pastor Andi Lloyd, Daily Meditation, April 21, 2023

Thoughts of mine from April 10, 2023: This unknowing state I am in now...I wonder if it isn't grief. Not just grief for the deaths of Uncle Charlie and of Paul so long ago, but grief for my unknowing...of being "sheltered" from the fact of death.

The following answered prayer then came to my hand...and I am grateful: 

[We]

can only pray
that this waiting
might yet be a blessing
and this grieving
yet a blessing
and this stone
yet a blessing
and this silence
yet a blessing
still.
-- “Therefore I Will Hope” © Jan Richardson

Thank you.