After reading Rabbi Brickner’s “When the Rhododendron Died”, Chapter III of Finding God in the Garden, my thoughts started pouring in – I could not stop them.
Have you ever stopped to think just how much time is spent mourning something or someone? We mourn our youth, our what might have beens. We mourn the loss of what we used to be. We mourn our aging parents and long for what they used to be – for the role they no longer fill in our life, the son or daughter that we should have /could have been. We mourn marriages, divorces, deaths, and sometimes, births. We mourn our children growing up. We mourn deceased pets, lost opportunities, trips we never took, on and on, the list is endless.
As Rabbi Brickner points out, it is good to mourn, grieve, feel anger, come to acceptance and move forward. Just because we replace what we are mourning does not make us flawed, cold hearted and uncaring - it just means that we are human and we live on for as long as we have, being present, doing the best that we can with what we have right here, right now. We never forget what once was – that person, place or thing is always with us. It is what has shaped us and made us who we are - loving, creative, beautiful beings of light.
JHP 01/25/2011
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