204. The Journey Home

If this is true then why do we console the mourner by saying "sorry for your loss"?

This, a very "simplistic" answer to some basic questions (life vs. death, e.g.)
One could say this is TOO simplistic an "answer" to that most perplexing of question(s) regarding the end of our life here on earth.
While I find it somewhat perplexing, I also found it to be a simple answer to a question such as, "What happens when I die?" or "What happens when we are dead and pas on?", it opens a discussion of many questions, each of which should be answered accordng to a person's level of understamding, not unlike the questions of the young person's asking of the "Four Questions" in the Passover Haggadot.

This world is not our home , just passing through. we are pligrim here just waiting to go home,

Our heavenly home is much better than the one we have here; and knowing this gives me hope ;

Can't wait. :) (am joking?) And in answer to Anonymous Forest Hills - I agree with your lovely comments. lovely very artistically written giving good visual imagery. (London weather causes me to wish I could roam further afield.
Thank you

This is very comforting for people facing the end of their lives...

this is so beautiful and as always timely... i was particularly touched by the line;

The person you are is also never lost. It only returns to its source.

G-d bless you for your sharing of this divinely inspired message

Beautiful, Something we all have to be conscious about. Thanks

For whatever reason I have a very rolling stone kind of life, have to move many times, etc. But right now I am in this place more than 10 years. I find myself not becoming familiar with the surrounding at all. I even see the temporary more when young people do not know this or that and old people pass on. Or a place some resemblance of the past but none of the persons who live there the same anymore. And obviously a life time number of years is very short. Let it be the Eternal in us keep our being in His senses. Amen.

This is such a beautiful explanation of "death". My mother passed away when I was seven so I have been exposed to death and dying for most of my life, as she was sick for most of it too. I try to gently, but honestly, explain the process to my own daughter so that she can try and find her own ways to see this painful part of life in a different light. Thank you for these gentle words.

Thank you for sharing this. My mother had an unfortunate lonely death. This helps me try to find some purpose in her passing.