Loss makes artists of us all

as we weave new patterns in the fabric of our lives.

~Greta Crosby

there is a sweetness I feel in the in-between spaces…

inquiry for today~ may your losses be balm to your deep knowing…..

hope in the eyes of loss…..

Twenty years ago today, my mother journeyed across the veil. I went out to the woods this morning to be with her and remember. As I placed my hands on moss-coated trunks and breathed in the smell of damp earth, what I heard again and again is “I am here my beloved daughter, in the greening life force that fills you and everything.” And I let the greening flow through me and connect me to her and all those shimmering on the other side. The ache of loss is still there, it always will be. It is a beautiful and tender sign of how great my love is. But the intimacy grows deeper day by day, year by year, and I am nourished and blessed and know myself connected to all of life.

~Christine Valters Paintner