"...and then one or another dies. And we think of this as love cut short; like a dance stopped in mid career or a flower with it's head unluckily snapped off - something truncated and therefore, lacking its due shape. I wonder. If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for [all of us] without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love....It is not the a truncation of the process but one of its phases; not the interruption of the dance, but the next figure. We are "taken out of ourselves" by the loved one while she is here. Then comes the tragic figure of the dance in which we much learn to be still taken out of ourselves though the bodily presence is withdrawn, to love the very Her, and not fall back to loving the past, or our memories, or our sorrow, or our relief from sorrow, or our own love." ~c.s. lewis
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I was very saddened when I read about Pam-even tho I knew she was ill, it STILL
was a shock-why I don't know? Good entry, Foralilia. ~Diane~ http://journals.aol.com/dizarra/StorysFromtheCityTalesFromtheSea
So good to hear from you Flora...I've missed you.
This was a beautiful sentiment to share...in honor of a woman who did show us all how to dance.
XOXO
I miss her already. She was such a bright
shining light for me.
Love,
Connie
Pam has touched so many of us in the e-world. She will be missed, and never forgotten.
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Love & prayers for this most courageous of women.
V
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