Do you see the beauty in life, or do you just exist? Be careful to just exist – that’s dangerous’. – Elrieda Pillmann

IS   IT   WORTH   IT.          .           .

Sometimes, at a Celebration of Life Service, I will ask THAT QUESTION.  Is it worth it?  I pose the scene that if we had a magical door to go through, and all we had to do to make sure that the hurt would stop; that there would be no grief or hard grieving; no tears; no sense of loss or hurt and all we had to do was walk through the MAGICAL DOOR, of course, with one small caveat, it would simply mean that you would have ever known, ever loved the one you are grieving, the one who gave you this special gift of GRIEF that’ll last the rest of your life.  Would you?  Would you walk through that MAGICAL DOOR.          .            .           ?

I don’t believe the title of this beautiful little film.  It’s not ALL IN THE MIND, it’s in the HEART and there’s no piece of earth, no cemetery plot that can ever hold what your heart always will and never won’t.

Don’t open up the cage of your grief.          .          .
TAKE THE DOOR OFF
and never let it be latched again.          .        .
anything else
just might be the worst kind of
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.     .     .the least kind of living