Living with grief is a full time job

Living with grief is a full time job.  It’s not a thing to get over grief — there is not a day that goes by when I don’t think about my mom and feel her absence. Living well with grief means just that — living with grief.  The relations we have with the ones who are in the stars are food for our lives here on the earth. 

My mom has been in the stars for 11 years, and every day I have learned something new about how to walk in life while my mother no longer has a body.  I actually feel that from wherever her spirit is — which I guess is also in me — my mom is teaching me, guiding me, initiating me into each new phase of life that presents itself before me. 

To receive this instruction, I need to listen.  I need to quiet my mind, relax the noise that swirls in my head and allow myself to receive. 

It is not so easy to receive in today’s culture.  In a world where we are told that our worth is measured by our achievements, by how much money we have, it’s not so simple to rest and receive.  When we feel like we need to prove ourselves, to be something, that simply being is not enough, it can be challenging to breathe into the emptiness and allow for the wisdom to come through us. 

When we can be quiet enough to hear the voice of the water that weaves between generations, between hearts, we enter a gateway. This gateway is always open to you. It is up to you to choose to walk through.