all is well
Death is nothing at all,i have only slipped away into the next room.whatever we were to each other,we still are.please call me by my old familiar name.speak of me in the same easy way youalways did.put no difference in your tone,wear no forced air of soleminty or sorrow.laugh ,as we always laughed,at the little jokes we enjoyed together.play,smile,and pray for me .let my name be spoken without an effort.life means all it ever meant.it is the same as it ever was.death is inevitable,so why should i be out of mind because im out of sight?i am but waiting for you,for an interval,somewhere very near,just around the corner.all is well nothing is past or lost.one brief moment and all will be as it was before,only better and happier.together forever henry scott holland
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These are very comforting words indeed ! But how would they play up in our mind if we were to want to move on ,and find a new life companion ?
Do you think that the thought of our loved one waiting in the next room ,could hinder us from seeking a new relationship ? Just a thought .
Exactly Norma!
They may be comforting words for some…but just words ,all the same.
Nobody,Henry Scott Holland included,knows for a fact if there is anything at all “on the other side”.
I dont think that guilt should be used as a bar to moving on with life and helping to make someone else,s life loved and fulfilled.
My opinion only.
Wonderful blog Jack. Thank you. Really enjoyed the read. I believe that people come into our lives for a reason. Some stay, some go. Some never leave us, not even in death – parents, children, great loves, grandparents, friends. They remain with you forever. That should no preclude us from loving another – no matter what their role in life. Have we room to love all our children, our grandchildren, someone who becomes like the mother who is gone, a new friend, the sister I never had? It never takes away from the love we’ve had. A true love stays in one’s heart forever. It lives on. Eventually after grieving it warms the souls, makes you smile, maybe even makes you laugh…as sweet memories of the most cherished time float in and out of our hearts as time goes on. Thank you again Jack. God bless, HS xx
thank youhelen
Beautiful blog, thank you. xxx
Thanks Jack…….lovely xxxxx M
Wonderful blog Jack, thank you xxx
That is well written and an interesting perspective. Nmod, I think that you’re free to move on once your partner has passed (even onto the next room, so to speak) you’re free to love and marry again. Another thing that we don’t often consider is that (and this is biblically speaking) in heaven there is no marriage – so it won’t matter who we were married to on earth and there won’t be any confusion once we get there… we will all just be together. Just another perspective. Good blog Jack..
Thank you for posting this Jack, I have heard it many times before, especially at funeral services, but it never fails to be thought provoking. I have thought each time, about my very dear ones that I have lost, what I wouldnt give for just a half hour again with them. If they are in the next room, why do they dissapear when I enter????? if half an hour is to long, I would settle for 10 minutes!!! I wonder if I climbed out of my living room window, and took a sneaky look in my bedroom window, would I see them? (i am only joking here because I have firm beliefs, and I know I will never actually see them again in this life)..but they are waiting for me, somewhere close, maybe in the next room?????…a lovely post thank you x
the moral of the story is there gone but not forgotten