WHO CAN FILL THE VOID LEFT BY THE DEPARTED, AND THE FORMER-LOVES?, NOW SO ESTRANGED.... AND DISTANT.... AND SO SPARING OF LOVING WORDS OF CONSOLATION AND EMPATHY,JUST AS IF BOTH THEY AND WE HAD NO HEART LEFT IN US TO GIVE AND TO RECEIVE. BUT,ABOVE ALL,TO GIVE AND BURN OUT LIKE A VOTIVE-CANDLE, WHICH DIFFUSES WARMTH AND LIGHT AND CHEER,AND,HAVING GIVEN ALL OF ITSELF,DIES THAT OTHERS MAY LIVE MORE-ABUNDANTLY. HOW QUICK WE ARE TO NOT FORGIVE OUR BELOVED. HOW QUICK TO PACK UP AND LEAVE! WHAT A SHABBY CONTRAST TO THE VOTIVE-CANDLE IS THE WORLD,WHERE MANY KILL THE SOUL AND THE HEART AND THE SPIRIT OF OTHERS, THAT,THEY MISTAKENLY THINK,THEY MAY LIVE A BETTER,MORE-FULFILLING LIFE...... AS IF GREATER FULFILMENT EVER RESULTED FROM THE SIN OF INSENSITIVITY TO THE PAIN OF OTHERS, AND FROM LACK OF COMMITMENT TO OUR VOWS. SOME REALIZE THEIR MISTAKE TOO LATE; OTHERS,ONLY ON THEIR DEATH-BED,WHERE EVERY TRANSGRESSION,EVERY UNLOVINGNESS,AND EVERY MISDEED APPEARS BEFORE THEIR EYES WITH AN UNQUESTIONABLE CLARITY THEY CAN NO LONGER DISPUTE AS SUITS THEM BY SCRAPING THE BARREL TO RAKE UP ALIBIS. ONLY GOD CAN FILL THIS EMPTINESS,THIS ABYSMAL AND TEARFUL VOID.....
Posted on: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 19:09:05 +0000
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