Blessing the Grief

(to begin remembering well)

Together…

Grateful, we know you are at ease…

       free of anxious desires to

       fix the world, to find the good.

Grateful.

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Grateful, we know the space left empty here

       is space you gently hold

       as we patiently wind our ways back to you…all in due time.

Grateful.

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And yet…

Our grief today is also true.

And it must live with the gratitude…

Twin siblings attending all relationship,

all surrender,

all love.

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So we ask blessings on this grief,

these tears, this silence,

these empty-vessel hearts.

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And we ask blessings on our need…

that you might yet hear all we still have to say

that we might know how love remains…

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Even as we understand it anew…

Together.