Fourth Week of July: Spiritual Aging Study Guide

Bracket the Pain

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This Week’s Excerpt

We who have already had to let so much go have learned that grief is not an occasion to which one must rise. If you but let it, the helplessness comes to meet you exactly as you are.

There are no demands made of you nor are there expectations.

The yarn of your life that has come unraveled will show itself to be made of strands of eternal love destined to weave themselves into new creation. But first, the way things once were must be allowed to come undone. There must come an ending.

And all the while not knowing if, when or how this miracle will come about, there will be the sense of a time to begin again come upon you starting with even the tiniest strand of hope.

–Excerpt from Spiritual Aging: Weekly Reflections for Embracing Life