My father passed away early this week. It got me to thinking about life and death and the finality of it all. Along with the fact that death, one day too will come for us all. How does one handle death? It gives us no real warning that it is coming. And when it does come, it is usually final. I find that, no matter our ages, it still hurts us emotionally, & psychologically. Some of us are even effected spiritually. Most of us handle it a little better in our advanced years of life. Yet we deal with it in different ways. Some act out sexually, others cry, some will shut down, while others may become angry and violent. Many will just pray, pray, pray. Others will say repeatedly, Why, why...?  Let the dead bury the dead: I heard a Christian preacher say. For years I did not understand the true meaning of that (many of them do not understand it either; they just preach it to you thinking it has another meaning; too long to explain it here. But you know what they teach). It came to me the other day, in clarity, what those words meant & mean. This is the long version. The Word is telling us that yes, the loss of a loved one or of a friend is painful: and it is the ending of the physical body. Yet the spirit lives on forever. We who are Alive need not chase the empty shell: for we are alive now, and we walk in the light. The dead cannot praise G-d; nor can the empty shell praise Him, in which they were once in. Life goes on; and so, do we. We are the living. Those who wish to close their eyes and minds to life, because they have lost hope, let them bury the dead. Now, we must bury our dead & show respect to the dead: as well as burying them for health reasons. But do not close your mind to living, by trying to look back on what used to be: as Lot's wife did & was turned to salt. Look with open eyes to the life that is in front of you, or ahead of you (follow me). Knowing too that those who have left this shell, do live on - one way or the other. Only the body is dead. Now, we who still walk in this living shell should walk in the life of it. For life goes on for the living. We are sad at the passing of a loved one, or of a close and personal friend (YeShua wept). But do not allow that loss to overwhelm you; to allow you to lose hope & spiritually die. If you do, then you are just as dead. Let the dead bury the dead. So, in layman's terms: there is no hope for them in coming back to this life. And if you have lost all hope in this life because they are gone, losing sight of the grand picture, then you are just as dead; even though your body lives. This is one of the main reasons many just shut down and shut off from the rest of the world for months or years, after the loss of a loved one or child. It is because of overwhelming grief. the type of grief that says and feels that there is no hope. What good is life without them? What is the sense of life anyway? We are all going to die! They have lost hope, & a reason for living. Let the dead bury the dead. You, follow Me (Life), and live!  SO, as I have told others these quotes that I have come up with through life's experiences, I am now telling you. "Stay hopeful and stay blessed my friend!" The 2nd part of that quote is: "Live in the moment. For we never know what the next seconds will bring us!" Please, feel free to make those quotes your own. If it helps you and others, that is all I care about. And that is "Truth's Corner!" It's about us all, together. It really does take a village.

 

By: Clarence Edward Writer/poet/CEO/COO/PRESIDENT/OWNER/VETERANsirclarencellc8@gmail.com