Cling
Cling –
I spent the day helping a friend go through the belongings of a dear loved one who has passed. It’s tough going. One might think it’s the expensive toys, gadgets, and gizmos which you’d want to hold on to but instead, it’s the little things; sheets of paper, old license plates, CDs, notepads. Items which wouldn’t sell at a yard sale or purchased at Goodwill are of immense value, a treasure to the ones who remain.
Death is often an open wound. Scabs may form, some healing might occur, but grasping at past memories and experiences, strains and pulls apart the wound and the pain, heartbreak of loss returns. Its hard letting go. It’s difficult to say; “goodbye.” but death demands we do it again and again in many ways, on many occasions and you wonder if it will ever be the last time.
Moving on requires that one live open-handed, no clinging to earthly, temporal things, allowing the shared life of the one who is gone to be enough.
blessings,
@BrianLoging (Twitter)
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Posted on May 10, 2018, in Mindfulness and tagged ##lasttime, #allowing, #blessings, #cling, #clinging, #dearlovedone, #death, #demands, #difficult, #earthly, #expensive, #experiences, #form, #friend, #gizmos, #going, #gone, #goodbye, #gothrough, #grasping, #hard, #healing, #helping, #holdon, #immense, #instead, #items, #leftbehind, #lettinggo, #life, #littlethings, #live, #loss, #manyoccasions, #manyways, #memories, #moving, #occur, #open-handed, #openwound, #pain, #passed, #pastmemories, #pullsapart, #remain, #requires, #scabs, #strains, #temporal, #thewannabesaint.com, #think, #tough, #toys, #treasure, #value, #wonder, #wound, @BrianLoging, belongings. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.
Essentialist 
I almost agree but appreciating and holding on to some memories or things of the loved one helps. There’ll dtill be plenty of times in life that they’ll remember old sayings etc which will guide or support them.
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Blessings and thank you for your comment. I agree. There are items we hold on to not because we can’t let go but they give the moments with our lost loved ones more significance and help our healing.
Grace and peace to you this day.
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