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July-September, 2013

All Is Well

by Rev. Cathy Wright, O.M.C.

The gates of the cemetery were just ahead. I could already feel the anxiety creeping over me. “Mom,” I said to myself, “this is not going to be easy.”

Soon the line of cars parked near my dad’s grave came into view. I could feel my heart beating more quickly than usual.

“This is not where I want to be,” I mumbled to myself as I got out of the car and wandered toward the grave site.

A group of mom’s friends, cultivated over the years, were huddled in small bunches chatting in low somber tones. My eyes soon fixed on my dad’s partially opened grave. On top of his casket and wooden box rested the small urn, enveloped in a velvet bag. My thoughts, more than once, flashed by as, “My mom has been diminished to this little box within a bag.”

It was almost too much to visualize. I glanced off into the distance in order to regain composure. Then, as if by cue, the Universe provided calmness in the storm. I pictured in my mind’s eye, a framed embroidery work which read, “Peace and Joy.” It created a “safe spot” where I could go whenever the pressure of the occasion threatened to overtake me.

As the urn was placed into the ground and flowers were placed on top of the site, she realized “Peace and Joy” were not just words — they were aspects of life available to us all.

As usually happens in like situations the sadness and pain of mom’s death was slow to heal. When asked how I was coping I replied, “A book titled, A Course in Miracles has a passage which says, When your body and your ego and your dreams are gone, you will know that you will last forever. Perhaps you think this is accomplished through death, but nothing is accomplished through death, because death is nothing. Everything is accomplished through life, and life is of the mind and in the mind. The body neither lives nor dies, because it cannot contain you who are life.” (T-6.V.A.1:1-4)

“That,” I quietly affirmed, “is what I know for sure and that is sufficient for me.”

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